Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...uncomfortably, jolting the Richter scale to A above high C. It is no coincidence that earthquakes occur wherever huge numbers of accordion players congregate. Many of them are said to be aswarm in eastern China, where earthquakes are common, although the Red Cross has not yet been able to confirm this...
...nobody anticipated the disaster that would befall. Little was heard of Demian after that, but it is easy to speculate that he was invited to leave Austria and settled in China in plenty of time for the earthquake season. The Red Cross has not yet been able to confirm this...
LIGO will be 100 to 1,000 times as sensitive as existing gravity-wave detectors. That should be enough not only to confirm relativity but also to probe deeply into the most violent processes in the cosmos, including ) exploding supernovas, collisions between black holes, and "starquakes" on the semisolid surfaces of neutron stars. All of these phenomena are believed to send out characteristic bursts of gravity waves. Says Rochus Vogt, the Caltech physics professor who heads the joint M.I.T.-Caltech team that will build LIGO: "We are going to look at a whole new force as a transmitter of signals...
...march toward democracy for a decade, Lech Walesa suddenly seems out of step with the times. Last week Walesa stumbled badly when he admitted publicly for the first time that he wanted to be Poland's President and proposed that elections be held as soon as possible. "I confirm," he responded cryptically but clearly to a question about his candidacy. "It is necessary to speed up the pace of reform and demolish the old structures...
...been constantly underestimated," said Ford Professor of International Security Joseph S. Nye, who would neither confirm nor deny reports of Kohl's Commencement address...