Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turned out, Joel was asking himself the same question. Luckily for the 20,000 adoring fans, Joel decided to stick with the instrument which launched his career. As he said early in the performance, "we're going to play some new songs, but we want to do the old stuff, too." It was a good choice...
...professor is no naif on the subject of civil rights and racial inequity in the U.S. Author of a 1975 work, Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy, Glazer long has held that quotas are too blunt an instrument to apply to discrimination...
...person's UFO, an improbability that nevertheless resonates with mysterious and sometimes marvelous possibilities. But it has become a rather tired topic. It is almost as hard nowadays to create fictional vehicles capable of reawakening childhood reveries about zapping through the years as it is to invent a scientific instrument actually able to journey up and down the old continuum...
Huchra, who made the telescopic observations for the Harvard-Smithsonian team, used an instrument called a spectrograph to break down each galaxy's light into its constituent colors. Within the spectrum he could see lines representing various elements in and around the galaxy's stars. These lines appear to be shifted toward the red end of the spectrum, depending on how fast the galaxy is moving and thus how far away from earth it is. By carefully measuring the degree of red shift, Huchra and Geller calculated the relative positions of the galaxies...
...Boston where the street action can run pretty heavy. Maurice Starr, 35, the drummer and producing whiz who put the Kids together in 1985, comes from neighboring Roxbury, where the streets are definitively mean. He has produced all the Kids' records, writes much of their material and commands the instrument work ("All instruments played or programmed by Maurice Starr" reads a large credit on the Hangin' Tough album). His gifts give the Kids a smooth buzz, but his ego increasingly gives them a pain...