Couples would then be spared the surprise discovery that outsiders had changed their contract without warning.

This surprise discovery was made with radar about 30 years ago when radio waves were first bounced off Mercury.

One of the advantages of a recent mapping of the castle had been the surprise discovery of a quite extraordinary wine cellar.

But this surprise discovery did even more than put a new giant on the astronomer's maps.

That surprise discovery led the agency to impose a delay of at least several months on its plans to resume shuttle flights in June.

"For the black civil rights leadership, the surprise discovery of defensiveness within the segregated white world turned their fear into elation," he wrote.

His surprise discovery helped pave the way to much work in human biology pertaining to chromosomal abnormalities.

Dr. Giapintzakis's surprise discovery is that nanofoam, unlike the other four forms of carbon, is magnetic.

The surprise discovery was made over a period beginning in 1998 and ending in 1999.

The latest problem was the surprise discovery of moisture inside a steel sleeve covering a section of line that was repaired this summer.