Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MOST AMEFICANS are not usually concerned with research in theoretical physics, but according to Ruggero Santilli's new book they ought to be. In II Guande Grida, Santilli levels charges against some of the most respected members of the U.S. physics community and claims that; "under the deceptive vest of democratic peer review, the current U.S. academic community in physics is a most totalitarian (and internationally powerful) scientific organization which imposes a most questionable form of slavery, that of the human mind." Moreover, Santilli argues that the systematic obstruction of certain kinds of research in theoretical and experimental physics...
...only accessories are music, which includes both recognizable classical pieces and simple recordings of nose; and lights, which either spotlight his antics or swirl around him to create confusion. In most of the skits, however, Marceau works solo on a blackened stage, clad in white ballet shoes, bodysuit and vest with a facefull of chalk...
Duarte's best moment came in October at La Palma, the slumbering mountain town where the first meeting with the guerrillas was held. He spurned the offer of a bulletproof vest and arrived with only a few aides. No armed guards were visible: only Boy and Girl Scouts in shorts and red kerchiefs stood between the President and his enemies. The sight of Duarte strolling the cobbled streets of La Palma captured both the promise and the risk of his presidency. As thousands cheered, their hands reaching out to touch him, Duarte's face creased into a smile...
...private citizens who commented on the proposal both said they felt the contract would take too much power away from the council and vest it in the appointed post...
...another essay, Rooney remembers that "when I was twelve, my mother bought me a corduroy suit. It must have been the first real suit with matching pants and jacket that I ever had. It even had a vest." To listen to an old senile relative ramble on like this would be considered an act of charity almost above and beyond the call of duty, but to buy a book full of these uninteresting memories from a stranger is sheer lunacy. They are written as simply and as poorly as first-grade primers: Rooney admits. "I dislike retyping a piece...