Word: sitter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basic principle of the laser some 40 years before the first such device was made but, more broadly, also advanced quantum theory. In addition, Einstein contributed significantly to the rebirth of cosmology, the study of the origin, history and shape of the universe. The Dutch astronomer Willem de Sitter and later the Russian scientist Alexander Friedmann had concluded that Einstein's equations pointed to an unstable universe ?possibly an expanding one. Because such a changing, dynamic universe was totally at odds with the popular picture of the heavens portrayed by most astronomers, Einstein had opted for a stable, unchanging...
...came from a similarly afflicted family. Halliwell's mother had died when he was a child, and his unloving father had killed himself twelve years later, leaving a modest inheritance. It was with that money that Halliwell supported young Orton and bought the tiny North London bed-sitter where they lived and died...
DIED. Sam Houston Johnson, 64, the late President Johnson's only brother; of cancer; in Austin, Texas. The younger Johnson worked for L.B.J. for three decades, acting, he once explained, as "baby sitter, chauffeur, political troubleshooter, administrative aide and general adviser." In 1970 he published My Brother Lyndon, in which he wrote that anyone who works for L.B.J. for more than 30 days "ought to receive a Purple Heart...
...attitude of the players and coaches toward the manager can either make or break his experience. "You can take all the pick-up tasks and glorified baby-sitter work if you're treated with respect, which grows out of the rapport a manager develops with his squad," Welch commented...
...question of rent control and its off-shoot, condominium conversion, has fueled the election fires somewhat, creating much more heat than light. Since Clem has taken on the role of a fence-sitter, the council has left the future of rent control in a state of inertia. During one of the council's rhetorical debates of the subject, Graham said, "This doesn't mean very much at all because we don't have five votes for anything." Whatever the outcome of tomorrow's election, there will finally be five votes in the council to decide the issue of rent control...