Word: wave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rules to the letter. He arrived early every morning -not to get any work done, but to peruse the desks of everyone else in the office, thus keeping one step ahead of his superiors. He would gleefully fill me in on his findings the moment I arrived, the first wave in a day-long deluge of chatter that made it impossible for either of us to get any work done. My life became a mind-numbing swamp of monologues about who got what promotion, why it was undeserved, which employees hated each other and why. "That goddam Elizabeth," Barnet would...
Practical problems make a constitutional amendment a poor instrument for austerity-mongers. Nonetheless, national polls show that about two-thirds of the country favors one. California sent a wave of tax-cutting and spending cutbacks rippling across the states last year, and Americans apparently want it to sweep through Washington as well. Of course, nobody answers the question of how states could balance their budgets without the billions of dollars in aid the federal government hands them each year. People know only that inflation hurts, and conservative economists and groups like the National Taxpayers Union tell them that federal deficit...
...depicted in a weekend house party. Fleeing the Nazis in 1939, Renoir settled in Hollywood, and though his output slowed, his later films included such acclaimed works as The Southerner (1945), and The River (1950), filmed in India. A singularly congenial, humane man whose work greatly influenced the New Wave directors of the 1950s (including Truffaut and Godard) and onetime Apprentices Luchino Visconti and Satyajit Ray, Renoir considered himself primarily a storyteller, always filming his special kind of tale. "I am interested in what happens to people," he once explained, "when they must adapt to a new world...
...enamored of a basic math text?his "holy geometry booklet." At 16, he devised one of his first "thought experiments." These can only be done in the mind, not in a laboratory, and would eventually lead him to his stunning theories. In this case, he imagined what a light wave would look like to an observer riding along with...
Another objection: Euroblood may not always be available. Last month a severe cold wave in Europe kept donors home and cut shipments by 20%. Also, some Europeans, like the German magazine Stern, are having second thoughts about the blood traffic. Warns Dr. Shelley Brown of the Council of Hospital Blood Bank Directors in New York City: "For anything as vital as blood, it's unwise to become overly dependent on a supply that you cannot control...