Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pressure-vacuum system," O'Donoghue said. "Once you shut off the pressure at the source, the vacuum at the top of the building sucks the gas out. It takes about a half-hour...
...beliefs and consequently it no longer represents a strong alternative to the Republican agenda. The Republicans, for their part, are divided among themselves as they attempt to determine what they stand for. It appears that there exists a definite need for a third political presidential candidate to fill the vacuum in contemporary American politics...
Astronauts retrieved the $25 million Wake Shield satellite today following its troubled 3-day flight. Plagued by various mechanical failures, the mission nonetheless was a partial success, NASA says, yielding four pieces of space-grown semiconductor film cultivated in the perfect vacuum of the satellite's wake. If further experimentation proves that film manufactured in space is superior to earthbound production, these materials may be a boon in the design of faster computers...
Alternatively, the Senate's proposed defense program (combined with Gingrich's desire to "eviscerate" the American role in international affairs) will come back to haunt us. In the vacuum of a powerless U.N., we will find ourselves a lonely superpower indeed, fraught with the paranoia that unregulated nuclear arsenals all over the Middle East are trained at the West, and that consequently, a new and much more dangerous arms race--which the Senate's misguided Cold War idealism has already endorsed--is the only solution left to our national security...
Indeed, the brain abhors a vacuum, observes neuroscientist Dr. Vilayanur Ramachandran of the University of California at San Diego; it craves information, and when it can't come by the data honestly, it does the best it can with what it has. One of his patients, for instance, a physical-therapy professor from San Antonio, Texas, suffered a brain hemorrhage that left a huge blank spot in her otherwise normal field of vision-or, rather, it would be blank if her brain allowed it. First, she saw a drawing of a cat, presumably supplied by her visual memory. "Then," says...