Word: plateful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...patterns and to dispatch tips to the field task forces. Investigators who had spent their careers exchanging information via slow, spotty teletypes became born-again high-tech detectives. "You've got so many decisions to make when you're dealing with paper," explains Wutrich. "Do you file a license plate under one suspect's name or another, or the kind of car or the arresting officer or the place? With this computer, you can search out any piece of information, no matter how you've filed...
...game remained relatively close until the eighth inning, when the Crimson, leading 11-0, sent 16 batters to the plate and exploded for 10 more runs before the MIT second baseman was called to the mound to pitch for the final...
...applications, though, depend on bringing the technology out of the lab, and despite the bubbly confidence of many scientists, obstacles remain. One is the need to form the new materials into usable shapes. While metals bend, anyone who has dropped a dinner plate knows that ceramics do not. And a flexible material has a big advantage over a brittle one if it is to be coiled around an electromagnet. Says Osamu Horigami, chief researcher at Toshiba's Energy Science and Technology Laboratory: "To get a magnet or coil or even a wire we could use with complete confidence could take...
...NOTEBOOK: Cornell drops to 4-10 inleague action, and Princeton, after falling toboth Harvard and Dartmouth, finishes the season at6-11-1 in the EIBL.KEVIN CURTIN (seen here in earlier action)fires a pitch towards the plate. Curtin upped hisrecord to 3-0 yesterday with an 11-0 victory overCornell...
...little after 6 p.m. last Thursday, William Bryan Cruse, 59, got into his car, carrying a high-powered rifle, a shotgun, a handgun and a bag of ammunition, and headed for a nearby shopping mall in Palm Bay, Fla. (pop. 45,000). He opened fire through the plate-glass windows of a crowded Winn Dixie supermarket and an adjacent jewelry shop. Stan Graybush, 45, was near a check-out line inside the Winn Dixie. "I heard boom boom boom," he said. "I yelled, 'Get on the floor!' There must have been 50 people running in all different directions...