Word: smashers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particle smasher near Geneva, scientists hope to finally unravel the building blocks that make up matter and energy. But a Stanford team is still trying to beat them...
Charges of political favoritism began to fly almost as soon as Energy Secretary John Herrington announced that Texas had won the competition for the $4.4 billion superconducting supercollider (SSC), designed to be the world's ! largest and most powerful atom smasher. Led by Arizona's Dennis DeConcini, Senators from several also-ran states protested to President Reagan that "there is a widespread perception that this decision was based . . . on political and other factors." They called for an investigation by both the General Accounting Office and a commission of "nationally respected physicists." Other legislators issued similar complaints...
...Harvard physics professors probing the ultimate nature of matter came one step closer last Sunday with the successful test run of the world's most powerful atom smasher at Fermi National Accelerator Lab near Chicago...
...women's tennis has made Margaret Court, Billie Jean King and Chris Evert Lloyd protective of their memories. It would be appropriate to say that Martina has played the competition off its feet, except that she is the only powerful woman tennis player who really leaves her feet, a smasher with an underrated delicateness. The Czech defector does not insist that she is the greatest, as Muhammad Ali would say, of all time, though she believes so. "America gave me the opportunity to play the best tennis any woman ever played, which I think I have done the past...
Rubbia, who shared the Prize with Simon van der Meer of Holland, headed a team that used a 200-ton atom smasher to produce clear evidence of the subatomic W and Z particles. These particles, sought by physicists for 10 years, are believed to carry the "week force," one of the four fun damental natural forces in the universe...