Word: thousandths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...white, know it is crooked. The professor knows it is crooked. You cannot teach in these circumstances." The Federal Reserve Board at the moment is considering a new regulation that would require all small businesses applying for bank loans to identify themselves by race and gender. To what one-thousandth will the Fed measure my bloodline? (Was there a trace of some pristine, nonwhite, non- European victimness four generations back?) All is well. Subdividing bureaucratic determinism files away more millions of citizens in its racial pigeonholes...
...because the head is very, very close to the platter surface--typically only one one-thousandth of an inch away--any physical shock to the hard disk could well cause the metal head to scratch over the platter surface and destroy whatever information that's stored in the path. Such damages are physical and therefore unrecoverable: your data is simply lost forever...
...quarks emerged from the primordial radiation "around a thousandth of a billionth of a second after the Big Bang," estimates University of Michigan theorist Gordon Kane. But as the early universe expanded and cooled, they vanished. Their fleeting existence left behind a fundamental puzzle that physicists are struggling to solve: What makes some particles so massive while others -- photons, for example -- have no mass at all? Because of its boggling heft, the top quark should help illuminate what mysterious mechanisms -- including perhaps other, still weightier particles -- are responsible for imparting mass, and hence solidity, to the physical world...
There are many excellent performances in Man of La Mancha. Tony Martinez, who recently celebrated his two-thousandth performance as Sancho, is indeed a Sancho among Sanchos. He sings a charismatic version of the humorous "I Really Like Him." The Padre (David Wasson) gives a beautiful rendition of "To Each His Dulcinea," expressing unerringly the simplistic ideal of the show: "How lovely life would seem if every man could weave a dream to keep him from despair...
...name tag is as inviting as he is. "How are you today?" asks the man whose tag curiously reads, 'Wernher P.' And for about the thousandth time, his thick, French/Creole accent betraying his Haitian heritage, he inquires, "What would you like...