Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is entering final negotiations with the local Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory to develop a center for the supervision and guidance of AXAF--Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility--an orbiting x-ray telescope planned for launch...
...scientists, AXAF will offer two advances over current x-ray telescopes. According to Harvey Tananbaum, associate director at CFA, the new telescope "will be able to take sharper pictures, detecting fainter, more distant sources." Also, AXAF will remain in orbit for 15 years, in contrast to current telescopes, which function for only a year...
...still read the sports pages, but we tried to avoid war imagery to describe third-down situations. Roger Clemens became the first $5 million baseball player, and Pete Rose was barred from the Hall of Fame. George Foreman will soon be fighting for the heavyweight championship, and Sugar Ray Leonard has retired. We think he means it this time...
Hoping to equal last year's performance will be junior south-paw Tom Hurley, whose 2.63 ERA is tops among returning pitchers. Other pitchers expected to contribute are last year's save leader junior Peter Rau and classmate Tom Baxter, along with sophomores Tony Lancette, Ray Desrocher, John Donahue and freshman Jeff Mitchell...
...same time, companies have been replacing many of the stars who led them during the boom years with more conservative managers. Says Paul Ray Jr., an executive recruiter: "Instead of doing deals, now the emphasis is on cost control." On Wall Street during the past two years, more than 60,000 jobs have been lost as merger mania ended and the bull market stalled. Largely as a result, big accounting and law firms that served the merger makers have slashed their partnership rolls. Last month the accounting firm Peat Marwick abruptly dismissed 300 of its 1,875 partners, protecting profits...