Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush's message will run something like this: "We proved in Kuwait that we will shed blood to preserve a nation's integrity. We will do the same for Israel if we have to. Can you really be sure than an untested Democratic President would do the same?" A thin reed, perhaps, but probably enough to stem a wholesale defection of Jewish voters...
...Cosby Show entered American living rooms and hearts during King Brandon's reign, transforming NBC from a Johnny Carson joke into the industry powerhouse. NBC has led the networks in the annual ratings regatta since 1985, but this year's margin of victory (over No. 2 ABC) was as thin as a soap opera's plot...
...this case the theories are those that describe the energy fields of the very early universe, shortly after the Big Bang. Under the right circumstances, physicists believe, very long, very thin strings of pure energy might have survived in their original state rather than cooling off with the rest of the universe. These cosmic strings would be infinitesimally thin but unbelievably dense, with a thousand trillion tons of mass for every inch of length. The enormous mass would warp the region around a cosmic string so that space itself would act like a distorting lens. Two light rays from...
...Berkeley team got around that problem by "grabbing" the whirling buckyballs with atomic "handles" containing the element osmium. The handles enabled the scientists to manipulate billions of buckyballs and align them in an orderly, crystalline fashion. By bombarding the carbon samples with a thin beam of X rays, the Berkeley scientists got an accurate computer representation of the soccer ball-like arrangement of the atoms...
Buckyballs, which have been found to come in larger sizes, have already been altered by adding atoms to their exteriors. Researchers at AT&T Bell Laboratories and elsewhere have created thin films of buckyballs and studded them with impurities that help the molecules carry electric current. Their report indicates such film could lead to a new class of useful superconductors. Other items on the buckyball wish list include tiny ball bearings, featherweight batteries and wires perhaps only one molecule thick...