Word: motions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prime Minister Chafik al Wazzan declared with heartfelt fervor last week, then quickly added, "at least on paper." And so it seemed. In mid-afternoon last Saturday, a force of about 450 fighting men of the Palestine Liberation Organization left Beirut by sea bound for Cyprus, | thereby setting in motion the evacuation of some 7,000 P.L.O. guerrillas from the Lebanese capital. The event was both dramatic and historic, since it marked the end not only of the ten-week Israeli siege of West Beirut but of the PL.O.'s twelve-year domination of Lebanon...
Security-minded companies have added their own panoply of defensive measures. Many high-technology firms have installed electronic gear that rivals their own products in sophistication. Ultrasonic motion detectors emit high-frequency sound waves that can instantly sense intruders. Invisible infrared beams of light set off alarms as they are broken. Rolm Corp., a Silicon Valley computer manufacturer, uses an electronic control room to monitor its extensive protection system...
...Science A-18, "Space, Time and Motion," "an inquiry into intuitive, philosophical, mathematical, and physical notions of space, time and motion [also examined] in the light of modern biology and psychology; time and continuity...cosmology," precedes by a mere 713 pages, Sanskrit 202br, Paninian Grammar II, "interpretations and reworkings of Panini; readings from the Mahabhasya, Siddhanta-Kamudi, and Paribhasendusekhara." If for bluster alone, Harvard deserves some respect...
...embezzlement scandal. But Author David McCintick, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, does not think his book had much to do with Begelman's latest downfall. "There is only one law of the Hollywood jungle," says McClintick, "and it is box office. Begelman made a string of flop motion pictures." And that is that, until, as many expect, some new company produces The Return of Begelman...
Prose can provide some fancy footwork too. To read Croce on Farrell- and others- is like having a tape library at hand. With a subject as difficult to describe as motion, that is quite a feat...