Word: solider
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...furniture stores, will rise about 9% to $38 billion this year. (That's second behind discounter Wal-Mart's more than $93 billion in volume.) And profits--about half of which come from the interest on Sears' 60 million credit cards--are projected to reach $1.25 billion, up a solid 25% over the record set last year. Wall Street has been delighted. Sears stock closed last week at $46.75, more than triple the price when Martinez arrived...
...BUILDING: A structure as playful as this deserves a nickname. And Frank Gehry and Croatian-born architect Vladimir Milunic's new building on the banks of the Vltava River in Prague has one. It's called Fred and Ginger, after its twin towers: one flirty and curvilinear, the other solid and upright. The staggered windows and rippled riverfront facade reflect the adjacent row houses even as the building stands apart from the rest of the city. Using some local construction techniques combined with sophisticated three-dimensional computer modeling, the two architects maintained consistency with the surrounding buildings but added Gehry...
With sophomore Mike Scott back from the flu, the solid play of sophomore Mike Beam in his stead and the Gary Payton-like defense of captain David Demian, Harvard coach Frank Sullivan is left with no choice but to rotate three players at shooting guard...
...tile, NASA was able to confirm the two pieces of metal, one 6 by 15 feet, the other 1 by 5 feet, were from the doomed shuttle. Challenger flew for 73 seconds after lifting off the pad at the Cape when a leak in one of the shuttle's solid fuel rockets caused the explosion. A sobering reminder, at a time when the U.S. space program is looking ahead to the construction of the international space station, of just how dangerous space exploration...
Basic research often takes time to show up in practical uses. The transistor was invented in 1947 by scientists studying solid-state circuits but was only put into radios in the 1960s. Now, life without the transistor is unimaginable. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) was discovered in the 1940s but was not used as a medical imaging device until the 1970s (now called magnetic resonance imaging). Now MRI provides a significant diagnosing device for doctors. Numerous applications can spring from single basic research discoveries, but those applications are not obvious before the research. Applied research usually takes basic research and puts...