Word: conducting
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Healy said he has asked the tow company's owners to prove at today's hearing that there was "no involvement of the tow company in this activity." He said that their contract explicitly states that the City Manager may terminate the agreement upon discovering criminal conduct of their towing operations or any "reasonably related" activity...
...Edward Witten, who was studying the properties of cosmic strings. "I was looking at ways you might be able to observe these very thin objects at cosmological distances," he recalls, "and I discovered that they could be superconductors -- they would conduct electric current forever." If that was true, he figured, electric currents as large as 100 quintillion (100 followed by 18 zeros) amperes could be induced in the strings. These currents could in turn produce intense magnetic fields around the strings, and particles, like electrons, caught in the fields would glow. In fact, a radio- telescope image of the center...
...butterfly migration, in fact, may turn into an economic boon for the peasants. Last year the locals guided 50,000 sightseers through the region -- for 500 pesos, about 60 cents each. They also conduct a brisk business selling butterfly-motif postcards, posters and tiles supplied to them at cost by Monarca. "Though it seems a very small amount," says Melody Allen, executive director of the Monarch Project, an Oregon-based lobbying organization that concentrates on protecting similar sites in California, "they are charging enough to make more income than they would if they were logging...
...York Times/CBS News poll conducted in June of 1986 asked the question: "In parts of this country where many people speak a language other than English, should state and local governments conduct business in that language as well as English, or should they use only English...
...telethon serves the double purpose of fundraising and public relations, said Figuero. She said alumni often ask questions about Radcliffe and share their undergraduate experience with the Radcliffe students paid to conduct the telethon...