Word: cladding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come in two types: many the size of one star, and others believed to be as large as a million or more stars, which lie in the middle of galaxies. Today's findings seem to show that the second type does exist. Lemonick said, "This is not absolute, iron-clad proof that's it a black hole but it's such strong evidence that nobody doubts...
...accounts, the somberly clad man acted cool and composed as he stepped up to the front desk at an abortion clinic on Beacon Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. "Is this Planned Parenthood?" he asked. Receptionist Shannon Lowney, 25, replied that it was, whereupon the man took a .22-cal. semiautomatic rifle from a black bag and shot her dead. Then he sprayed the room with gunfire and left...
...major headache could be winter weather. Narrow mountain roads are choked with snow. Foul weather would blind many of NATO's frontline aircraft, taking away NATO's technological superiority. Everything will be complicated by the cold. Troops will have to be clad in "overwhites" for camouflage and will need more food, more unfrozen water, more heating fuel. Miles of white netting will be required to shroud olive-drab military gear. Snow fouls weapons, and cold air produces large clouds of condensation when the weapons are fired, making it easy to pinpoint the shooter. Helicopter rotor blades whip up mini- blizzards...
...boys, identically clad in blue blazers, gray slacks and red ties emblazoned with the school seal, packed the 800-seat Saint Paul's Church with adoring parents and visitors from far away...
...this time, Nelson Mandela was standing amid a roar of adulation in Oslo as he received the Nobel Peace Prize, symbolizing the triumph of black African rights in his native land. Last week he had only words of hard truth for 2,000 blacks, many of them barefoot and clad in tatters, gathered at a soccer field among the shacks of Orange Farm, a township in the southern Transvaal. Seven months into his term as President of South Africa, the good times he promised have barely begun. "Don't expect us to do miracles," he told the crowd. "Before...