Word: meters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bruin's two first-place finishes came in the one-meter diving competition, as senior Will Schaub edged out three Crimson freshmen, Dave Monahan, Robert McDermott and Matt Paulson. But in the three meter competition, the three highly touted Crimson rookies all placed, with McDermott taking first, followed by Monahan and Paulson...
...late 1987 the name of Alan Bond was riding very high in America, and in Australia he was a hero. "Bondy," as his country called him, was the prime mover in the syndicate that funded the design, construction and testing of Australia II, the 12-meter sloop with the controversial winged keel that swept to victory over the U.S. defender off Newport in 1983, leaving, for the first time in yachting history, an empty plinth in the New York Yacht Club where the America's Cup used to stand...
...ultimate fantasy of the miniaturists is tiny robot "assemblers" that could operate at the atomic level, building finished goods one molecule at a time. This is the far-reaching goal of an embryonic discipline called nanotechnology, so named because it would require manipulating objects , measured in billionths of a meter (nanometers). In Engines of Creation, the nanotechnologist's bible, K. Eric Drexler envisions a world in which everything from locomotives to cheeseburgers is assembled from molecular raw materials, much as proteins are created from their amino-acid building blocks by the machinery of a living cell...
...eagle, the neck of an antelope and the hindquarters of an ostrich. A mythological chimera? Not at all. "I stepped down into this gulch," recounts University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno, "took 25 steps and screamed." Directly ahead, atop a sandstone knoll, lay the full skeleton of a 2-meter-long (about 6 ft.) carnivore. It proved to be the most ancient dinosaur discovered to date...
...thrill of victory" necessarily comes the "agony of defeat." The 4-3 overtime defeat marked Minnesota's fourth consecutive exit from the NCAA Final Four without a title victory. Once again, Minnesota fans were left with the indelible impression of a ski jumper viciously tumbling down a 100-meter ramp...