Word: banging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next period, Harvard came out with a bang and engineered a corner within the first five minutes...
Citicorp has only itself to blame for many of its problems. It led the ill- fated charge by American financial institutions into the London equities market in anticipation of the 1987 "Big Bang," which deregulated the British securities industry. When the overcrowded market proved to be a disappointment, Citi dissolved its London equities business, losing $65 million; 140 people lost their jobs. Citicorp was also the leader in Third World lending. Today the bank has some $8.4 billion in outstanding loans to less developed countries, or LDCs. Since 1987 Citi has been forced to write off or set aside reserves...
Penrose's answer is that when quantum gravity is finally constructed, it will prove to be time asymmetric -- that is, it will not work in reverse. Why? Because the Big Bang that started the universe must, at its earliest moments, have been governed by quantum gravity. And the Big Bang was surely a time- asymmetric phenomenon that could not happen in reverse. If quantum gravity winds up being the theory governing the mind, that will also explain why time moves forward, not backward...
...etymology can be traced, with rare nicety, to the last Big Bang in world affairs before the current one -- the pivotal autumn of 1945, just after the end of World War II and before the beginning of the cold war. "Our national security can only be assured on a very broad and comprehensive front," said Navy Secretary James Forrestal at a Senate hearing that fall. He added, "I am using the word security here consistently and continuously, rather than defense." Senator Edwin Johnson replied, "I like your words national security...
Clay, who concentrated in English during his undergraduate years, called the mathematics department "a vibrant place" in remarks at the dinner and said that he was making the gift because "mathematics is the key to understanding science, [and] compared to many scientific projects, in mathematics you get more bang for the buck...