Word: contains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guidelines contain a philosophical preamble which carves out an expansive interpretation of free speech on campus. But the bulk of the 12-page report describes rules for formal speaking events which are designed to allow speakers to talk while protecting a certain degree of audience protest...
THERERIN lies the root of a growing controversy: Should taxpayers and their elected officials tolerate, and even fund, materials developed to halt the spread of AIDS that contain explicit sexual language and references to sexual practices that are frowned upon or feared by large portions of the population...
Vaclav Klaus, a spokeman for the opposition group Civic Forum, called off any rallies today, when the opposition meets the government for more negotiations. Communist Premier Ladislav Adamec held an unprecedented meeting last Sunday with opposition leaders to try to contain the peaceful revolt...
...cold dark matter theory, has gathered more support. This theory postulates an as yet undiscovered form of exotic subatomic particle that pervades the universe. The presence of this mysterious "dark matter" could explain why most galaxies -- including our Milky Way -- seem, judging from measurements of gravitational forces, to contain about ten times as much invisible matter as they do visible stars, gas and dust. The existence of dark matter is needed to fill the gaps in some of the Grand Unified Theories that physicists have concocted to account for the fundamental structure of matter and energy...
...other mapping efforts are in the works. "Big as it is," Geller explains, "our survey area compared with the visible universe is like Rhode Island compared with the surface of the earth." The bubbles and walls could be isolated phenomena. But, notes Geller: "Every survey ever done has contained structures as big as the survey could contain." If that trend continues, then there are larger objects yet to be found, which will give theorists even worse headaches. "These surveys test in the most acute way our conceptions of how structure developed in the universe," says Ostriker, "and for that reason...