Word: peculiare
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...reasons for the fusion furor are more complicated than just the prospects of riches and fame. Scientists and university administrators are ; sometimes driven by the same sort of base emotions -- like jealousy and paranoia -- that often motivate less intellectually lofty folks, and the peculiar circumstances of this discovery helped ignite a number of long- smoldering resentments. For one thing, fusion and other subatomic phenomena that are usually studied with giant nuclear reactors and particle accelerators have long been the private domain of physicists. Chemists, on the other hand, were more likely to be studying how to make a better laundry...
...before publishing the paper, but according to the journal the pair said they were too busy. Fleischmann, though, claims they supplied 19 new pages. In any case, the paper was withdrawn. Says Fleischmann: "Nature is not the appropriate place to publish because they don't publish full papers." That peculiar sentiment might come as a surprise to James Watson and Francis Crick, whose Nobel- prizewinning discovery of the structure of DNA was first published in the British journal...
...G.O.P. whip Newt Gingrich, predict that the inquiry will result in Wright's censure, removal as Speaker or maybe even expulsion. But in the end he is likely to hang on to his job because this is an argument not about right and wrong but about the peculiar ethics rules of the House...
...reasoning from these figures to the conclusion that Congress is "immune from effective voter control" is peculiar. Why is it that Ronald Reagan's 59% landslide re-election in 1984 constituted a mandate but the 60%-plus landslides run up by most members of Congress constituted a scandal? Why is the apparent Republican lock on the White House considered to be a profound ideological message from the voters, whereas the apparent Democratic lock on Congress is considered to be a sign that the system doesn't work...
...much energy and direction into them as I originally did." The show will need 16 months of sold-out houses to break even, and its backers are audibly apprehensive. "Robbins has an economic interest too," says co-producer Bernard Jacobs, president of the Shubert Organization, "but artists are very peculiar. Finally, we are all in his hands." They are also in the hands of the '80s Broadway babies, raised on body mikes, synthesizers and musicals with no dance numbers. Will they care about a showman who hasn't staged a new show in 25 years...