Word: denser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bean culture, experimented with Northern plant varieties requiring less growing time and thus less exposure to the worst summer heat. The plants took hold like natives, and there too it was apparent that as the weather smiled, the yields mounted. The soybean experts in the Midwest tinkered with denser plantings, reducing the distance between rows by as much as 30 inches to cut down on the herbicides necessary to kill the weeds. That worked beautifully, as the profusion of bean plants popped out quickly and sheltered the ground around them, crowding out the weeds. When blooms appeared, cool weather encouraged...
After Marley died of a brain tumor in 1981 at 36, a new generation of Trenchtown youths began to forge a harder, denser style of reggae called dancehall. Reflecting the desperate times in Kingston's ghettos, dancehall lyrics were charged with angry diatribes glorifying guns, drugs and sex, and sung often in a fast, talky style called "toasting." On Minute to Pray, Mad Cobra warns, "Original bad boy have no mercy/ Original bad boy run the country/ Them get a minute to pray and a second to die . . . We no miss the target...
...exist if Twin Peaks hadn't paved the way. But Wild Palms is a total original -- just as daring as and perhaps even more demanding than Lynch's series. Twin Peaks, for all its weirdness, was at bottom a simple murder mystery: Who killed Laura Palmer? Wild Palms is denser and more disorienting, a paranoid dream play that bombards us with freaky characters and mystifying plot twists, tying them together only hours later...
...successful, the X-ray system would allow for the production of denser, more precise circuits than those produced with standard optical lithography technology, which uses ultraviolet light...
...procedure -- those who have mammograms are less likely to die of breast cancer than those who don't -- there appears to be no difference in mortality for younger women. Mammograms may be much less likely to detect incipient tumors in younger women because their breast tissue is denser, making the X rays harder to read...