Word: recurs
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...disintegrate into stray particles, which will bind loosely to form individual "atoms" larger than the size of today's universe. Eventually, even these will decay, leaving a featureless, infinitely large void. And that will be that--unless, of course, whatever inconceivable event that launched the original Big Bang should recur, and the ultimate free lunch is served once more...
...breeds great caution, hence the kind of wariness that made both sides stop at the very top of the slippery slope that opened before them in Hainan. All's well that ends well? By no means. China will keep pressing, and the U.S. will keep pressing back. Crises will recur - perhaps all the way to a new cold war. But remember how the first one ended: with a whimper, not with a bang. Cold wars don't turn hot in the shadow of the bomb...
...hold on to the good parts of family life succeeds. One woman, who insisted on anonymity, said of her attempt to birdnest: "It was the worst year of my life." And some couples--particularly those whose marriages were abusive--should never consider any arrangement in which marital miseries could recur. But for others, creative thinking can lead to unusually satisfying situations. New York City mediator Ann Frisch says she's seeing a proliferation of novel arrangements in her practice. "We try to brainstorm with parents so they can come up with their own unique solutions, and it's astonishing...
TIME: Does Lloyd's have the right instruments to make sure that the problems the judge referred to will not recur...
...Guston's Woodstock, N.Y. home circa 1970 neatly represents the range and form of Guston's new vocabulary. Indeed, each painting-of a blank canvas, a nail or coffee mug-constitutes a lexical building block of his radical new language-a language of objects. These are representational units that recur obsessively, in different combinations, in his larger works of later years...