Word: disturbingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that periodically reduce its radiation) or even planetary alignments. Currently, much of the theorizing centers on El Chichon, the Mexican volcano that erupted last year and ejected huge clouds of dust into the atmosphere. By obscuring sunlight, it may have upset the planet's heat balance enough to disturb the atmosphere and oceans...
...grievances." The money is intended for welfare, not arms, but churches do not monitor how it is spent. It is this willingness to bunk potential excess in the sunny glow of the social gospel that has caused so much trouble for the W.C.C., and now the N.C.C. Such bunks disturb Christians who view Marxism as the world's gravest long-term threat to human rights...
...alone having to deal with questions like how they will vote on unemployment programs." If the Greens fail to win 5% of the vote, their future as a political force will depend on whether Vogel's Social Democrats maintain their leftward drift. In short, the Greens will disturb the West German political scene as long as there is room on the left for a new generation of skeptical citizens with a dim sense of the past and a hazy vision of the future. -By Frederick Painton. Reported by Roland Flamini and Gary Lee/Bonn
...with rosebud curtains, the Prince's in a more austere navy style. This ship is not for the frugal: it burns a ton of oil every seven miles. The ship's 26 officers and 254 crewmen all give their orders in stage whispers so as not to disturb the royal repose...
...tallies were not a concern of Renaissance Popes. In the past 1,500 years or so, the Vatican has amassed vast amounts of art in a way that has oscillated between the ravenous and the haphazard. There is a vague popular belief-which this show is careful not to disturb-that the Popes were always keen patrons of the best art of their time. It is quite untrue...