Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before pulling ahead to win in the final laps. But Petty, a "charger" who likes to "drive the way I feel it," plays it crafty. Instead of "drafting"−a risky tactic Petty invented, in which he practically sits on an opponent's tail pipe, using the partial vacuum created by the lead car as a fuel-and engine-conserving tow−he hangs on Allison's flank and then passes him on the outside. When Allison regains the lead, Petty cuts inside and roars ahead for good on the eleventh lap. Aided by a crack pit crew...
...possibly newborn, in which supposedly in violable constants such as the acceleration of gravity are not constant but continually changing. Then there are pulsars, the collapsed cadavers of giant stars that give off extraordinary pulses of radiation, and kindred black holes, which are totally invisible but act like cosmic vacuum cleaners in sweeping up any stray stel lar material in their vicinity. Where does this material go? England's Roger Penrose and Robert Hjellming of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory have dared to suggest that it might surface elsewhere, perhaps in an entirely different universe...
...young, he points out. Now, however, both father and mother are often away at work. "The home closes down during the day," notes one economist. Meanwhile, children are seldom hired even for part-time jobs, and the role of the school has been enlarged "to fill the vacuum that changes in the family and workplace created...
...best this is an oversimplified view of a very difficult problem. Schools do not exist in a political vacuum, and they cannot readily instill standards that oppose those of the society of which they are a major institution...
With costs so low, Hopkins said, industries could be convinced to move their production sites to outer space. Certain materials, such as electric components, ball-bearings, vaccines, and high strength fabrics could be best produced in low-gravity, vacuum environments. The industries are expected to be self-supporting, he said...