Word: millers
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...Miller can perhaps take some ironic comfort in the thought that on this subject, his lack of training in monetary matters puts him at no disadvantage: even his more experienced colleagues-to-be on the board do not really understand what has been happening to velocity. Says one staffer: "The whole thing is a mystery." But the technical complexities of carrying out money policy are only one problem: whatever Miller decides to do, he is bound to ruffle either liberals or conservatives. It would take only minimal bad luck or misjudgment for him to dismay both...
...Astronomer Joseph S. Miller, using the Lick Observatory's powerful 120-in. (3-meter) telescope near San Jose, Calif., has produced powerful new evidence to support the "distant" quasar argument. Expanding on earlier work at the Hale Observatories by Beverley Oke and James Gunn with the 200-in. (5-meter) Palomar telescope, he and two colleagues studied one of the so-called BL Lacertae objects, which until the late 1960s were thought to be ordinary variable stars, but now are known to resemble quasars...
...object picked by Miller was a quasar-like structure surrounded by an old, spherical galaxy. When the Miller group measured the red shift of light from that galaxy, the astronomers determined that the island of stars was 1 billion light-years away. And because the quasar-like object was imbedded in the galaxy, it was presumably the same great distance from the earth. Furthermore, the galaxy's brightness was consistent with that distance. Miller's conclusion: if the red shift was indeed a correct yardstick for an object that so closely resembled a quasar, it probably was accurate...
...Still, Miller concedes, he is no closer than before to learning what quasars are or what gives them their awesome power. Some astronomers now believe that quasars may be a stage in the evolution of galaxies. Others speculate that they may be galaxies with "black holes" -the remnants of giant, collapsed stars -at their centers. Matter from the surrounding galaxy drawn by tremendous gravitational forces into these holes could be compressed and heated enough to produce huge amounts of energy. Perhaps the most bizarre idea is that quasars are "white holes," portals through space and time linking our universe...
This Sunday's meeting in the Superdome in New Orleans offers a symbolic asymmetry that the big bowl has not known since Joe Namath's cocky New York Jets humbled the mighty Baltimore Colts in 1969. Denver Coach Red Miller, ebullient and emotional, is in his first year as a head coach after wandering in the desert of long-ignored assistant coaches. Tom Landry, stoic and singleminded, is the only head coach the Cowboys have ever known (his 18-year tenure surpasses his closest rival in job security, Bud Grant of the Vikings, by seven years). Bronco...