Word: affections
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...never quite as cold as El Ninos are warm. Also, while El Ninos grow in strength with each degree of change in ocean temperature, La Ninas do not. The reason can be traced to the physics that links the atmosphere to the ocean. What allows El Nino to affect weather worldwide is the intrusion of unusually warm water into the eastern Pacific. As this happens, storms (which feed off warm water) inevitably move eastward. But once the eastern Pacific cools, storm formation in this region shuts down. At that point, any further cooling triggered by La Nina can have only...
...sort of skeptical at a fundamental levelabout how much government can affect some of theseinnate social problems," Daniel C. Burfoot '99said...
...food -- while being alarmist enough to prod business leaders into action. "The consequences of the millennium bug, if not addressed, could simply be a rash of annoyances, like being unable to use a credit card at the supermarket," Clinton said. But the worst-case scenario? He added: "It could affect electric power, phone service, air travel, major governmental service." Not to mention Vice President Gore's presidential ambitions...
DEEP THOUGHTS With the President in China, Al Gore announced that a U.S. missile was fired at an Iraqi antiaircraft site. We asked Fox analyst Dick Morris how this might affect Campaign...
...While changing the perception of drugs as a 'cool' countercultural phenomenon is essential, there's also a need to address the social problems that lead people to use drugs," comments TIME correspondent William Dowell. "Of course this ad will influence the white middle class, but how will it affect an inner-city black kid who can make $250 a week in a regular job but can make $1,000 a week selling drugs? Or the ghetto dwellers who turn to drugs out of despair at ever being able to change their reality? Ad campaigns can be an effective part...