Word: wave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Undergraduate Council last night voted unaminously to give $12,200 and a "serious manpower commitment" to aid the effort by the Student Production Association (SPA) to snare British new wave star Elvis Costello for a one night show at Harvard...
...first question astronomers asked: What kind of supernova is 1987A? There are two main types. A Type II explosion occurs when a massive star exhausts its nuclear fuel and collapses under its own weight. When its matter, falling in from all directions, meets at its center, a shock wave bounces back out in a tremendous explosion that blows apart the star's outermost layers. A Type I explosion occurs when a gravitationally powerful white dwarf star that is part of a binary star system draws gas from its nearby companion. When it accumulates too much, reaching a critical mass about...
...Friasi then spotted a sailor aboard a lifeboat and dropped a 30-ft. rope ladder. Drained of his strength after 22 hours in the howling storm, the crewman struggled slowly up the ladder. Only a few feet from safety, he was struck by a mountainous wave and lost in the water...
Perisano sees VCRs as the wave of the future. "They're becoming the norm rather than an exception as an appliance in American households...
...great temptation simply to drift, "lower our voices" settle for what we have, we are; say it is too late for change, we lack the resources, all we can do is keep our head above the wave, treading water. History has made us, we cannot remake ourselves...