Word: correspondance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This has meant that urban areas, which tend to follow natural forms and not surveyors' lines, pay no heed to political divisions (except when those lines correspond to major policy divisions like tax rates or school districts). The "Tri-State," "Tri-County," or Greater Whatever Area are where we live; the Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, a balkanized netherworld of politics. Even though the area is an organic whole, even though suburbs and cities need each other, no one can do anything in more than one principality at a time...
...that all the galaxies must have come from a single point. Finally there is the fact that hydrogen makes up 75% of the matter in the universe and helium nearly 25%. These elements can only be forged in a furnace as hot as the Big Bang, and the proportions correspond exactly to what the Big Bang model posits...
Tony runs away, Maria tries to send him a message and events speed rapidly to a tragic conclusion. Sound familiar? It should. The characters and major plot devices in West Side Story correspond almost exactly with Romeo and Juliet...
...course, two free weeks at the end of classes is a welcome prospect for students who spend 80 hours a week on their extracurriculars. But it's probably not the best way to get a good education. Reading is assigned to correspond to lectures and discussions, not to be completed in a two-week cramming session after the course has ended. That defeats the purpose...
...extremely powerful movement," says Ross Goldstein, a San Francisco psychologist and market researcher. "I'm impressed by how deep it goes into the fabric of this country." Says noted theologian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago: "We are all warned against thinking in terms of trends that correspond with decades, but this one is a cinch. I think that people are going to look back at today as a hinge period in the country's history." Some social observers have already dubbed the 1990s the "We decade...