Word: minuses
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...writer, sometime actor and the father of a son (it was his TV stand-in who was married to Raquel Welch). Mathers is currently negotiating with a network to update the past in a two-hour TV movie version of Leave It to Beaver, starring the original cast (minus the late Hugh Beaumont), with Beaver playing Father Cleaver, and a new generation of pesky children...
Looking back at Haig's record at State, Stanley Hoffmann, professor of government at Harvard, concludes that Haig was indeed mainly a creation of Kissinger. "He was Kissinger minus the grand design," contends Hoffmann. "Haig's policies were defined largely by what he learned from Kissinger." Hoffmann thumbnails the key similarities as follows. On U.S.-Soviet relations: "Be tough. But keep negotiating." On Western Europe: "The best way to deal with the Europeans is not to brutalize them." On Central America: "When faced with even the most minute challenge, hit hard." On the Middle East: "A generally...
...survey polled 1,010 registered voters by telephone between June 8 and 10. The sampling error is plus or minus 3%. When the results of this study are compared with previous TIME-Yankelovich polls, the sampling error is plus or minus...
...that prolonged stretch of time also allowed a grand illusion to grow in the public mind-the idea that this war was going to be a cultural event, with the participating nations displaying the ceremonies of battle the way some birds display tail feathers, as rituals of violence minus the blood. For the spectators there was more than enough to be amused by, including the Falklands themselves, unknown to the world before April 2 and afterward an anthology of jokes about penguins, sheep and kelp. Those not giggling were celebrating. Argentine children waved flags; British children waved flags. Except...
...detect a fugitive monopole, Cabrera used a kind of magnetic mousetrap, which was connected to a SQUID (superconducting quantum interference device). He turned a coil of niobium, a platinum-gray metallic element, into a superconductor of electricity by cooling it to within nine degrees of absolute zero (minus 460° F). Current thus moved through it without resistance, allowing the slightest twitch in the current's flow to be recorded. At 1:53 p.m. on Feb. 14, the magnetic flux in Cabrera's device jumped eight steps, exactly what was expected if a Dirac monopole passed through. Cabrera...