Word: atlanticism
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BERMUDA, Britain's oldest colony, is already largely self-governing, but a determined minority of the North Atlantic territory's 65,000 residents--led by Premier Alex Scott--have been pushing full independence for years.
They are not the only ones with reservations. Whereas Peterson set his record during the Great Depression, Gilmore came of age in the era of loaded dice, and has been dogged by numerous accusations of cheating in the recent investigative book Game of Chance. Beyond his links with ACPCO (Atlantic...
-warmer than average sea-surface temperatures in the North Atlantic, which pumps heat energy into storms and makes them stronger
-stronger easterly winds in the upper atmosphere, which encourage storms that form over west Africa to travel across the Atlantic toward the Americas.
What the forecasters can't predict at all is where the track of these storms might lead. Some of them undoubtedly won't make landfall at all, and the ones that do could strike almost anywhere from Massachusetts down to Mexico. With the increase in population in most coastal areas...