Word: certain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women are wheedling, cajoling, flattering and threatening in an effort to reach one another's minds. Rarely has the international struggle for influence grown so intricate, with religious, legal, family, political, economic, humanistic and military considerations so delicately mixed. We seek to dissuade some leaders from doing certain things, to persuade others to act, a ritual as old as civilization but raised now to the speed of electronic signals and extended to every argument that can be reached by TV cameras...
People in certain fortunate industries and regions will probably avoid adversity, as they did in 1979. Those in the Southeast generally did well because the region's beneficent climate and low wage rates continued to attract business. The Southwest surged because its oil and natural gas were in heavy demand. Farmers in the Midwest grain belt and the far West prospered, largely because a hungry world increased its call for what America produces best: food. Average farm incomes increased 117% from 1970 to $23,263 per family in 1978 and are higher now. The region that fared best...
...some critics, the auction houses' success is excessive. While no one blames them for dizzy prices-they are not their bidders' keepers-even dealers who are making wild profits as a result of the art boom evince a certain distaste for the whole process. London's Waddington points out that the auction world's Big Two, unlike most thriving corporations, do not plow back even part of their profits into research, grants for young artists or gifts to museums. Says he: "They are simply dealing in commodities." There is a gavel-size black cloud over...
...form the nuclei of atoms-and hence the bulk of the matter in the universe -have long been regarded as permanent fixtures on the subatomic scene, members of a family of heavy particles known as baryons. If they happened to collide with still other subatomic particles, one thing was certain: the number of baryons coming out of such interactions was always the same as the number going in. To put it in the language of physics, there was conservation of baryon number...
...force, which governs some forms of radioactive decay within the atomic nucleus. In carrying their work further to relate these two forces to a third -the strong force (which binds the atomic nucleus together)-they and other researchers determined that such unity requires a net loss of baryons when certain particles collide. In other words, the proton must decay into lighter subatomic fragments. By most physicists' reckonings, protons have a mean life of around 10,000 billion billion billion (10³-²) years (more than half of them will disintegrate in that time). Thus...