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...acquisitions today-a helium-neon laser, a flow meter, some bookends, a Rolodex, a light table, a 3-ft.-tall thermos for liquid nitrogen, a massive pneumatically operated vacuum valve-will go into storage with the rest, waiting for a buyer. "I've got $20 million-that's Government cost, not mine-worth of stuff," says Grothus. "I'm looking for someone to sell it to for 10? on the dollar. I'm trying to sell it to the People's Republic of China. It's usable. It would fill the technical and scientific...
DISNEY IS NOT a paradigm of cool. Not that nature movies generally are, but most viewers will without a doubt recall with a wince those semi-documentaries which manage to cram the grand expanses of nature into the vacuum tube confines of the American psyche with a liberal lubricaiton of cuteness. You know, the bear cubs clumsily gamboling about, choreographed to silly bassoon music and chortling narration ("Well, I guess our little friends got more than they bargained for when they tried to get into that beehive...
...happy-go-lucky student, I enjoy the proliferation of eateries and record stores until I need to transact some "real life" business--that I usually save for trips home. But how must it feel to live here and watch your neighborhood optometrist, or vacuum repairman clear out to make way or yet another video arcade...
That voice was all the more compelling in this chaotic campaign. Nine candidates appeared on the ballot: seven were respected political figures. Unless you covered them for a living, or carried a scorecard. the rush to fill the White vacuum was dizzying...
...1960s and early 1970s Brezhnev tightened the control over academe, but not all scholars found their discretionary authority restricted. In fact, in areas where applied social science research could improve the coherence of domestic or foreign policy, the conditions of scholarship were often approved, so that in the relative vacuum of Brezhnev's final years successful academian burcaucrats, like Primakov, were able to turn themselves and their institutes into quasi-formal political advisers of the Central Committee of the Central Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU...