Word: scattered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...operators objected that the law barred them from the city's downtown, forcing them to unprofitable locations. Well, said the court, the town has no obligation to ensure "sites at bargain prices." The court's ruling in effect permits localities to scatter adult theaters, as Detroit has, or to concentrate them, as Boston has in its "combat zone." After the decision was announced, the mayor's office in Renton was deluged with more than 100 calls from officials of other cities looking for tips on zoning-ordinance design...
...Burgin could be persuasive, however, he could also be mercurial, a trait that the Examiner poked fun at in another TV ad. As an unsmiling Burgin enters the newsroom, staffers cower behind bookshelves and scatter in fear. "David's got a reputation as sort of a tough guy," narrates Hearst. "But I think that's blown way out of proportion." Still, Burgin was difficult. He disappeared from the office for long stretches, blew up suddenly at staffers, - and once, in a fit of pique, skipped a planned meeting with company brass in New York. Hearst "kept saying I was capricious...
...work was an advance in the field of X-ray crystallography, which has been employed since 1912 to examine the architecture of substances that have been crystallized. An X-ray beam is aimed at a crystal. As the beam travels through it, the crystal's atoms diffract, or scatter, the rays, producing fuzzy spots of varying intensity on film. The resulting diffraction pattern looks something like strings of beads. Although each type of crystal creates a distinctive design, the patterns are extremely intricate and were once very difficult to interpret. To get beyond the primitive and tedious practice of scrutinizing...
...grumbled about the rapid approach of the coming school year, which would soon scatter us across the country. No one realized it was the last time we'd all be together that summer. And no one suspected that we'd be reunited within a month--for a funeral...
...earth orbit. The battle mirrors would aim the laser beam at missiles or warheads. The mirrors would have to be gigantic, as much as 90 feet in diameter for the geosynchronous variety, and of almost unimaginable perfection; the slightest pitting or warping could cause a laser beam to scatter. Chemical lasers would need aiming mirrors (diameter: 30 ft.) atop their satellites too, and those mirrors would also have to be just about perfect. Star Wars Supporter Edward Teller considers fleets of laser satellites and orbiting mirrors too expensive to make chemical or excimer lasers practicable for missile defense...