Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus both sides can take-or lose-heart. In the hallowed jargon of yesterday, herewith the bottom line: "Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?" That, too, can be read backward and forward...
...million budget, which has nearly tripled in that time. So far businessmen give her good marks for intentions, lesser ones for accomplishment. Says James D. McKevitt, Washington counsel for the National Federation of Independent Business: "Talking a good game is one thing, but getting those bureaucrats at the bottom to implement it is something else. They often wall off the most well-intentioned administrator. They have the traffic-cop attitude. They just like the power of giving tickets...
...Costle always asks subordinates: "Have you looked at alternative ways, including doing nothing?" Though Carter's well-touted zero-based budgeting has gone nowhere in most agencies, it has worked well at EPA. Holed up in a windowless room for three weeks, officials constructed a new budget from the bottom up; for example, they shifted half the funds for noise abatement to a program for screening drinking water for toxic chemicals...
...basic cause of lightning: the buildup of enough voltage, or electrical potential, between clouds and earth (or be tween different clouds) to overcome the resistance of the insulating layer of air between them. The buildup occurs when electrons, perhaps carried by falling water droplets, migrate to the bottom of a cloud, giving it a strong negative charge. Because like charges repel, that negative charge drives away electrons in the ground below, leaving it with an excess positive charge. Eventually, the voltage between cloud and ground becomes so great that electrons burst across the insulating air barrier, producing a brilliant flash...
...atoms in the upper atmosphere, they produce a shower of subatomic bits of matter moving at great speed. When these so-called "secondary cosmic rays" collide with atoms in a cloud, they knock electrons from them. Accelerated in the cloud's electric field, these electrons avalanche toward the bottom of the cloud and pile up there...