Word: unlock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sample is admittedly small and perhaps unrepresentative. If it is representative-I tend to think it is-then maybe men can unlock the secret to a woman's heart and soul. Maybe the key is nothing more than a lifetime of love and devotion, of selflessness and sacrifice...
...know the purpose of the game. In fact, you know only one thing: you're It. You go home, turn on your TV and find newsman Daniel Schorr insulting you. Your ballpoint pen leaks all over your expensive shirt. You are given keys but not told what they unlock. Then things get nasty. Someone is framing you, trying to drown you, shooting at you. Uh-oh. It's dawning on you: this "game" is not a game...
...that the scientists used to unlock that interior was provided by the sun itself: the great, sonic-boom-like explosions that constantly ripple its surface. Using computer techniques similar to those required to produce sonograms of the human body, the scientists followed the sun's sound waves as they raced through its interior and across its surface at speeds of 20,000 m.p.h. "It's a terrible din," says University of Cambridge astrophysicist Douglas Gough. But, he adds, since millions of explosions are taking place at any single moment, their waves can be plotted like a body scan to create...
...Bauby's spirit proved stronger than his heart. He died as he lived: with dignity, on his own terms and in accord with his own words. "Is there a key out in the cosmos that can unlock my bubble?" Bauby asks at the end of his book. "A currency valuable enough to buy my freedom? I have to look elsewhere. I'm going there...
...quarters in a warren of cubicles. It's all part of the latest disruption of career life in the Nothing-Is-Sacred Nineties. When corporate behemoths spin off divisions, they often cite the need to "focus on our core competencies" (translation: "We couldn't run this thing") or to "unlock value for investors" ("We made stupid acquisitions, and now we're dumping them"). 3M had to make hard choices about where to invest its money. Imation lost out because of its lousy earnings compared with other businesses. So out the door it goes, with a bunch of products and patents...