Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There have been some amusing examples" of mistakes on the part of the prize-awarding committees, Glashow said. He cited the 1906 and 1937 Nobel prizes in physics which recognized J.J. Thomson for discovering the electron as a particle, and subsequently his son for discovering it as a wave...
...name out of the running, but Clinton is said to be pressing him to reconsider. Meanwhile, a President whose team has already lost the intellectual energy and political acumen of such first-term stars as George Stephanopoulos, Harold Ickes, Don Baer and, yes, Dick Morris is facing another wave of retirements. Among those polishing their resumes include spokesman McCurry, counselor Doug Sosnik and, if he doesn't get Bowles' job, chief lobbyist John Hilley...
...display your self-regard on the cover of your memoir--a field already crowded with books such as Claudia Schiffer's Memories and almost 20 celebrity bios called My Life? Apparently, the next wave is minimalism, as demonstrated by Whoopi Goldberg's new, boldly titled Book. Some of the genre's classics...
...groups. They appeal to the middle class with promises of tax credits for school-related spending, to the lower class with promises of inner-city development packages, to soccer moms with promises of child-proof gun locks. The other social institutions ought to move now, before the next wave of polling data comes in, and the parties get it together...
...Digital Seismograph is so precise that the unit at Harvard's Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Mass., can detect "marine microseisms"--the "motion of the ground generated by wave action against the entire coastline," Steim says. Units in other locations have also detected volcanic explosions, the sonic wave generated by landing space shuttles and even trucks...