Word: path
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Trueheart said he had planned to stay for only three years when he took the IOP position in June 1983. He said that he saw it as an educational detour from his "career path" of journalism...
...Valley's electronics upstarts, which depend on venture-capital financing. Reason: those potential backers would lose an important incentive if their profits were taxed at a higher rate. Says California Senator Alan Cranston, who plans to fight the committee's change: "It would put a tremendous obstacle in the path of the innovative young men and women who can create the technologies of the future...
...another recent move which strayed from the path of automatic tenure for junior law faculty, the school delayed for two years a decision on whether to grant tenure to Assistant Professor of Law Clare Dalton, another CLS-influenced assistant professor...
...every contemporary composer with a once-performed piece moldering on the shelf knows, subsequent readings are hard to get. But new works need not be masterpieces to deserve further hearing; indeed, it is unreasonable to compare them immediately with their glorious predecessors. The inertia of the repertoire makes the path to acceptance an especially difficult one, requiring of both performers and listeners open minds and open ears. But it can be done. "I like the involvement with what is happening now, and with being a part of the sifting and winnowing-out process," says Fulkerson, explaining his advocacy...
...does one quasar produce two images? The answer, astronomers say, lies in a "gravitational lens," an immense object with a powerful gravitational field located somewhere between the quasar and the earth. As light from the quasar approaches the object, it is diverted from its original path by the intense field (see diagram) and produces what earthbound observers see as multiple images...