Word: matter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since early in the Carter Administration, in fact, there has been talk in Washington of such practices. Indeed, the matter came up explicitly in July 1978, when...
What caused the new optimism was a tiny, ephemeral bit of matter that has neither mass nor charge. Known whimsically as the gluon (pronounced glue-on), it is believed to carry the so-called strong force, which helps bind together the other tiny particles-some 200 at last count-that make up the minuscule world of the atomic nucleus. When physicists first postulated the sticky little gluons more than five years ago, they were only theoretical concepts: no one knew whether they really existed outside their equations or were just some more scribblings on the blackboard...
...Americans has continued to decline. Mostly because of inflation, but also because taxes have been creeping upward, the actual buying power that people have been getting from the money in their paychecks has declined by nearly 4% over the past twelve months. So more and more, almost as a matter of survival, discretionary spending is being cut back...
...there is another side to the matter. If jurors cannot grasp the complexities of a big case, it may be the fault of the lawyers. "You don't need a Ph.D. to understand these cases," says Vinson. A sociologist from the University of Southern California, Vinson has studied firsthand the ability of jurors to cope in several huge cases. His conclusion: jurors try hard, but lawyers do a poor job of explaining. Typically, lawyers spend years piling up documents until jurors get lost in the minutiae. Eventually, says Vinson, they stop listening to the gobbledygook. Instead, they watch...
...tragedy. To have seen a Keaton film is to remember his thin, straight mouth, its corners barely holding their own against gravity. The eyes are equally memorable; Spanish Poet Federico García Lorca described them as "sad infinite eyes, like those of a newborn beast of burden." No matter what madness swirled around them, they remained wells of loneliness in the pale landscape of Keaton's face...