Word: meters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report from Paris sounded like a nonevent, yet scientists considered it major news. In a rare display of international comity, the 46-member General Conference on Weights and Measures unanimously redefined the meter, the world's basic unit of length.* Instead of being viewed simply as an arbitrary length, the meter will henceforth be defined in terms of another base measure, time-specifically, the distance light travels through space in 1/299,792,458 of a second...
...physics' sacred constants, the speed of light is exactly 299,792,458 meters per second. If in the future it is measured with greater accuracy-or, more unlikely, is found to have shifted-the length of the meter will change as well...
...Crimson dropped nine spots from last year's fourth-place finish, the best ever by an Ivy school. Kate Wiley, who earned All-America honors by placing seventh last year, fell to 59th place with a time of 17:52.4 over the 5000-meter course. Jenny Stricker, who also earned All-America honors last year for Harvard, has taken a year off to train for the Olympics...
Great goal-line defense five times prevented the Elis from scoring from the one-meter line in the final minutes of Saturday morning's Harvard-Yale rugby match, preserving a 19-15 Crimson victory...
...acquisitions today-a helium-neon laser, a flow meter, some bookends, a Rolodex, a light table, a 3-ft.-tall thermos for liquid nitrogen, a massive pneumatically operated vacuum valve-will go into storage with the rest, waiting for a buyer. "I've got $20 million-that's Government cost, not mine-worth of stuff," says Grothus. "I'm looking for someone to sell it to for 10? on the dollar. I'm trying to sell it to the People's Republic of China. It's usable. It would fill the technical and scientific...