Word: loops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other instruments had to be light, but the collector had to be ingenious. Although the probe will loop two times around the sun to help it match orbits with the comet, Stardust and Wild 2 will still shoot past each other at nearly 4 miles per second, 10 times as fast as a speeding bullet. In order to catch dust particles without disintegrating them, Jet Propulsion Lab engineer Peter Tsou first thought of making a trap out of Styrofoam; he figured dust would bury itself harmlessly inside. Unfortunately, says Tsou, "cosmic dust particles are so small that on Styrofoam...
...Bernbach, who tapped into youthcult with the "Think Small" campaign for Volkswagen. He wasn't an elegant rationalist like David Ogilvy, whose ads famously advised the rich that a Rolls-Royce was the sensible car to buy. He didn't even work on Madison Avenue, but in Chicago's Loop instead. But Leo Burnett, the jowly genius of the heartland subconscious, is the man most responsible for the blizzard of visual imagery that assaults us today...
...decided that I wasn't ready to go to medicalschool right after graduation. I've decided to gointo the recruiting loop and work for a couple ofyears, and then hopefully I'll be able to make afinal decision after that," he said...
Walker caught the shuttle at about 6 a.m. Friday on its second loop to the Blodgett Pool. He joined a trickle of students clad in warm-up pants and Department of Athletics sweatshirts who walked briskly out of the Quad dining halls towards the shutter or their bikes...
...however, may not appeal to parents. As with the Pill, spontaneous intercourse can mean more intercourse. Worse, when a girl can slip off to a clinic after soccer practice and return home undetectably injected with three months' worth of birth control, parents are taken straight out of the supervisory loop...