Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...long, 6-ft.-high machines generate a cloud of neutrons that penetrate the luggage. These combine with the nitrogen in plastic explosives to generate gamma rays; an array of detectors identifies the substance. But other items containing nitrogen, including wool sweaters and padded ski boots, can set off warnings. The manufacturer, Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego, says the false alarms can be reduced with further experience. At the moment, says FAA administrator James Busey, "we have no other system available...
...high up in the center of the cafe. Prices today are appalling: a Coca-Cola costs $5, a Bloody Mary $10. But as one sits on the eastern terrace of the Deux Magots in a spring sunset, looking out toward the medieval church spire across a newly installed array of lilacs, tulips and apple trees all in flower, one can hardly help feeling that such a vista is worth almost any price...
This is a subject that makes museums nervous, and perhaps it is not so strange that no museum show in recent memory has focused on forgery and its ramifications. Hence the interest of "Fake? The Art of Deception," a sprawling and overcrowded array of more than 600 objects, on view at the British Museum. "We are all emotionally involved with fakes; nobody wishes to be associated with them," the museum's director, Sir David Wilson, sagaciously remarks in the catalog. "Fortunately, most of the worst errors are our own, the result of nearly 2 1/2 centuries of collecting." The reluctance...
...disappearance sparked an intense year-long search that spanned four New England states and spawned a vast array of highly-publicized rumors as to her whereabouts. The discovery of the Hamilton body was first reported in The Boston Herald, which reported yesterday that the skeleton had been linked to Webster...
...protection spans the political spectrum, polarization should not plague Earth Day unless fringe groups seize the occasion to sabotage a steel mill or stage other "ecotage" attacks on perceived corporate villains. Earth Day's organizers more likely face the opposite problem: the possibility that the hype and the numbing array of events will cause people to throw up their hands and stay home...