Word: ricochet
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...turning the spirit of cooperation into reality by laying out exactly how the Israelis will withdraw their troops from most towns and villages of the West Bank by the end of next March, transferring civil authority to an elected Palestinian Council. Its 304 pages of articles, annexes and appendixes ricochet back and forth between the abstract and the arcane, recoiling from pledges of "mutual understanding and tolerance" to notes on how many adzuki beans the Palestinians could import from Jordan...
Late in the game, Konik fired a one-timer that appeared to ricochet off the back of the net, but was not ruled a goal. Would the chance ever arise again...
Shoot neutrons through a liquid or solid, and these subatomic particles will bounce off the atoms inside. The angles at which the quantum bullets ricochet tell scientists how the target atoms are arranged. That knowledge has already led to advances in semiconductors and may someday explain the bizarre phenomenon of high-temperature superconductivity. Clifford Shull, now retired from M.I.T., and Bertram Brockhouse from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, helped perfect neutron-scattering techniques in the 1940s and '50s. Today, nearly a half-century later, they have Nobels to show for it. Ironically, the man who did the pioneering work...
Allen collected a ricochet off the cross-bar and deposited the ball post the fallen New Hampshire goalie...
Alar on apples, radon in homes, asbestos in schools. the U.S. appears to ricochet from one environmental crisis to another, with the result that policy aimed at reducing risks to human health frequently appears to make little economic or scientific sense. Even some environmentalists concur that decisions to rip asbestos out of school buildings were probably ill considered. In many cases, sealing the dangerous fibers in place would have provided a more prudent and less costly remedy. Similarly, while no one denies that homes with high levels of radon pose a health hazard requiring prompt attention, what about houses with...