Word: mirrors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...combat-and flight-performance data right onto the windshield in a green phosphorescence that stands out even in strong sunlight. Thus the pilot does not have to look down at his instruments and can keep his eyes on the sky ahead-with an occasional glance at his rear-view mirror to see what may be behind...
With production heading higher, unemployment dropping and profits climbing, businessmen by all rights ought to be bullish. Quite the opposite: last week brought two new signs that they are still deeply worried. The stock market, that sometimes distorted mirror of investment hopes and fears, tumbled 22 points, as measured by the Dow Jones industrial average, to a 34-month low of 753. And a McGraw-Hill poll of executives in eleven industrial countries found U.S. businessmen second from the bottom in confidence about the future. Only profit-pinched Belgian managers were more apprehensive...
Such are the jolting contrasts that make the U.S. economy a puzzling picture at the moment?as, indeed, it has been during most of Jimmy Carter's first year in the White House. To the public at large as well as to economists and businessmen, the contradictions appear to mirror an equally mixed-up management of the economy by the Carter Administration. Policy zigged from talking up a tough tax reform to abandoning most of it, zagged from professing unconcern about the dollar's slide to intervening actively in currency markets to prop up the greenback. Noting Carter's propensity...
...their centers. Matter from the surrounding galaxy drawn by tremendous gravitational forces into these holes could be compressed and heated enough to produce huge amounts of energy. Perhaps the most bizarre idea is that quasars are "white holes," portals through space and time linking our universe and a mirror-image universe composed of antimatter. When antimatter from that other world comes in contact with the "normal" matter of our own, the two totally annihilate each other. That kind of reaction, involving a complete conversion of mass into energy, could explain the prodigious energy output of the quasars...
...that it limited her popular appeal. But her manner of writing faithfully reflected the intense but indirect way she looked at the world. She approvingly described one of her novels as being "on the periphery of a passion-or. the intensified reflections of several passions in a darkened mirror...