Word: motions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Using half-a-dozen basis sets and their infinite variations, the Restic offense changes every week depending on the opponent-that's the multiplicity-and makes use of such hocus-pocus as backs and ends in motion before the snap-that's the flexibility...
...lift passengers up and around without tilting them, throwing them against a rail or squeezing them off the tread as it narrows while going around the turn. Complicating the problem were some basic laws of physics that say the two handrails must move at different speeds to match the motion of the twisting stairs. Still, the results look surprisingly conventional: a conglomeration of chains and sprockets and comblike metal plates ingeniously designed, machined and arrayed. The finished escalators will move 6,300 people an hour, provided they can first be persuaded to step on board...
DIED. Elmer W. Engstrom, 83, chief executive of the RCA Corp. from 1961 to 1968, who during his 39-year career with the company married the skills of an electrical engineer and manager to pioneer in the scientific development of modern electronic communications, including radio, radar, motion-picture sound and, especially, both black-and-white and color television; in Hightstown...
Indeed, the UMass offense was constantly in motion, while Harvard could not build any sustained offensive drives, failing to make the crisp, precision passes that worked so well for the Minutemen...
...Things are a lot less testable and assessable than the panel indicated," Glzzer said. "If we tried to do it across the board, it would lead to a lot of waste motion...