Word: top
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...length of its life, which is less than a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, will reveal how many sorts of particles the Z 0 decays into and thus how many other particles exist. Current theory says there may be only one fundamental particle of matter, called the top quark, left to observe. But there may be many more, and gauging the Z 0's lifetime will tell physicists how close they are to a full understanding of the particle menagerie...
...know how to explain this." The rueful part, after the semicolon, redeems the rest. He natters on about his girlfriend, Elizabeth Hughes, whose mild, pleasant drawings accompany the text. Is he happy with her? Without her? Will they marry? One wonders whether, as a suitor, he will ever top an early gambit, when he invited her to a park to share a bacon-lettuce-and-tomato sandwich, then showed up with the ingredients % and a portable microwave oven...
WASHINGTON--A former top official from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is seeking immunity from prosecution in exchange for testimony implicating former HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce in the scandal over influence peddling at the housing agency, sources said yesterday...
...name at the top of the party roster reads Jiang Zemin, but power in China still rests in the hands of a few octogenarians. So it made sense for them to choose as party General Secretary a man known as "the weather vane." Jiang is the consummate apparatchik, whose rise to nominal power rests almost wholly on his ability to read China's swirling political winds correctly. The 63-year-old former mayor of Shanghai perfectly mirrors the party line of the moment -- slower economic reform coupled with rigid political orthodoxy -- as he made clear last week in his maiden...
...hammering of the Lewis beat, wails with the simple, not to say crude, sexual metaphors of his lyrics. Dennis Quaid very successfully re-creates his dervish-like stage presence (he made Elvis' pelvis look as if it were stuck in the mud) in a portrayal that goes over the top in nicely calculated measure. And Winona Ryder contributes a hypnotically enigmatic performance -- articulate innocence and inarticulate knowingness all mixed up -- as the singer's nymphet bride. All these authenticities fitfully but forcefully remind us that back in the enervated '50s, there were certain unspeakably raunchy things in life and fantasy...