Word: spinning
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...polysilicon and a type of glass that can be removed with acid are deposited on a silicon base. A hole for the hub is lined with the glass and then filled with polysilicon. When the glass is etched away, the hub remains and the arm is free to spin around its axis...
...faltering buyout of UAL, the parent of United Airlines, combines with signs of a new burst of inflation to put stock prices into a spin. The drop rekindles concerns that a debt-laden era might be coming to grief and provokes fears of a bearish season ahead...
This is the funny stuff? Yes, because Allen puts a deliberately farcical spin on Cliff's frenzies. It is good showmanship, a way of relieving the itchy ironies of Judah's discomfiting story. It also rings with irony. If neither Judah's guilty musings on his own crimes -- and he does exhibit a strong desire to be caught and punished -- nor decent Cliff's frantic quest for some kind of fulfillment can awaken heaven's sleeping eye, then what in this world can? If Manhattan, coming at the end of the '70s, was Woody Allen's comment on that decade...
...tennis courts with high- speed cameras, sensors and other gadgets that feed data into computers. His goal is to discover what really happens while an athlete is in action, and to use that knowledge to improve performance. An example: although Braden is a foremost advocate of top spin in tennis, he has proved, contrary to conventional wisdom, that tennis players who roll their racquets "over" the ball to impart top spin not only waste energy but also unnecessarily risk "tennis elbow." His high-speed film shows that the ball is in contact with the strings for only four milliseconds...
...make these measurements, a beam of atoms, usually cesium, is sent through an oscillating magnetic field, which reverses the spin on the atoms' electrons...