Word: phase
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, the first phase of construction ceded to the second without much warning. The job suddenly got serious. They started driving steel piles into the ground with a giant hammering machine that utilizes both explosives and a falling weight...
...reigniting the feminist movement as it used to be is no more possible than a return to the simpler times before feminism. By the early 1980s, more imaginative women in the movement began to speak of a second phase that would be quite different from the first. Friedan, as usual, was out front. In her 1981 book The Second Stage, she called on her feminist sisters to go beyond "sexual politics" that cast man as the enemy and denied women's "roots and life connection in the family." The movement must change its focus, she argued, from succeeding...
...principle behind all antinoise devices is the same. Noise is basically a pressure wave traveling through the air. Antinoise is the mirror image of that wave, an equal and opposite vibration exactly 180 degrees out of phase with the noise to be blocked. When noise and antinoise collide, they interact with what is called destructive interference, canceling each other out. The idea is not new; generations of high-school physics students have seen destructive interference demonstrated with undulating Slinkies or jump ropes. But it is only recently -- with the advent of small, high-speed signal processors -- that scientists have...
...Phase out arbitrary prices. As long as bureaucrats set prices, the economy will experience severe distortions. Nothing short of true free-market prices will produce the efficiency and the supply response needed to stabilize the economy...
...Tail is the last time that rowers will be competing on the river during the fall season. According to Ivy League regulations, the program starts the indoor phase of its season after the Thanksgiving weekend...