Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...practiced for that since we've been having trouble with it [the zone]," McAnaney continued. "We sent multiple cutters to clear up the space, definitely tried a new concept...
...solving them can be difficult. City bureaucracy often has a life of its own, with each city agency performing its own particular function in its own particular way. An outsider trying to get anything done in a city government must clear a path through an administrative jungle simply to understand what is going...
Nonetheless, while the evidence is suggestive, there is still no clear understanding of what is going on. In their experiment, Pons and Fleischmann immersed electrodes of palladium and platinum in a bath of heavy water -- water whose ordinary hydrogen has been replaced with an isotope called deuterium. When they passed a current through the electrodes, the contraption produced heat. They concluded that deuterium ions had moved into the spaces between palladium atoms and fused together to form helium, giving off heat in the process...
American schools should establish clear academic aims for students and teachers, Sizer said. "Schools have to have visible goals," he said. "That is, goals that kids can understand...
...message was clear. Not only do these aging leftists disdain people who they feel are simple-minded enough to be patriotic, but they have yet to mature beyond the ludicrous late '60s assertion that anyone who salutes the flag or is proud to be an America is a fascist...