Word: connectivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most violent space storms of all occur when magnetic field lines in the solar wind connect with those that surround the earth, creating a kind of funnel that channels huge quantities of solar plasma into the magnetosphere. In response, powerful currents surge through the high reaches of the atmosphere, where they can utterly scramble broadcast signals, and even through seawater and bedrock. These surface currents can corrode buried pipelines, interrupt transatlantic phone conversations and overheat electrical transformers. In 1989, during the most recent solar maximum, currents induced by a geomagnetic storm brought down the power grid that supplies Canada...
...political conscience. The dispute occurs at the point where the mess of personal character and ambition and expedient need runs into history, principle or public ridicule. Dick Morris' adventures at the Jefferson Hotel--though meaningless in themselves, and pretty funny, if you are feeling savage--are damaging because they connect in the American mind to larger questions of public trust. Doing so, they ensure that the manipulative cynicism of politicians has produced an ultimately more dangerous cynicism in the public...
...shingle as a free-lance issues adviser. "It didn't hurt that candidates thought I could deliver the West Side," he says. He helped a raft of local Democrats hone their positions but found that policy alone didn't fire his engines. "I wanted to find some way to connect issues with electability," he says. He teamed up with pollster Richard Dresner, who Morris says did some work for Hollywood studios, asking audiences which blurb made them want to see the next James Bond movie and which of three alternate endings they preferred. Morris had an idea...
...used to work the desk, someone who took interest in Erie's mutterings, or seemed to. Hughie is dead now, so Erie elegizes a man he thought brought him luck. Like most elegies, this one is about the mourner. Erie needs a new lucky charm. If he can connect with this clerk--turn their parallel monologues into a dialogue--the gambler might be a winner again...
...would be positioned on his side, and would try to move his shoulders. One of the trapezius muscles in his right shoulder could flicker a little. Nothing else. "It would take time for my brain to connect to what muscle to move. I'd have to think, 'My brain to my right shoulder. All right. Let's go. One, two, three.' I learned to will...