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Still, the torment was worth it for the precious few minutes he had with them when they were neither awake nor asleep, when they were finally still and their breath began to flatten out in rhythmic heaviness, when their bodies fell slack and rolled in toward him, toward the black-hole depression that he occupied in the middle of the mattress.

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Think Progress » WellPoint CEO receives a 51 percent increase in compensation. 2010

What's more, "black-hole" start-up costs are more easily minimized the second and subsequent times, but the incentive remains.

Best Jobs Incentive Is Letting People Keep Their Money 2011

Still, the torment was worth it for the precious few minutes he had with them when they were neither awake nor asleep, when they were finally still and their breath began to flatten out in rhythmic heaviness, when their bodies fell slack and rolled in toward him, toward the black-hole depression that he occupied in the middle of the mattress.

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Stephen's discovery that black holes are hot and emit thermal "Hawking radiation" unifies quantum matter and gravitational black-hole physics with thermodynamics, the science of heat.

Stephen Hawking at 70: still the brightest star in the scientific universe 2012

Some years, even, I send all sorts of information that then disappears into a galactic black-hole.

Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009

Little wonder that James Bullard, president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, warned of the American economy creeping closer to the black-hole years of deflation experienced by Japan in the 1990s.

Dilip Hiro: America Is Suffering a Power Outage ... and the Rest of the World Knows It 2010

The absence of a Compton reflection hump in 3C 33 is consistent with either an ionized accretion flow (Ballantyne et al. 2002), or with retrograde black-hole spin (Garofalo, Evans, & Sambruna 2009).

Supermassive Black Holes Spinning Backwards Create Death Ray Jets? | Universe Today 2010

And clearly electromagnetic fields are significant in the black-hole produced jet model, above.

World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC" | Universe Today 2010

The Bush Administration wanted no judicial or Congressional review of its wartime decisions at all, under a black-hole theory that the president's powers as commander-in-chief absorbed every other provision in the Constitution.

Linda R. Monk, J.D.: Arguing the Case Against Elena Kagan: Nice Matters J.D. Linda R. Monk 2010