Word: downwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...force of geography, Russian test explosions are in northern latitudes. Evidence was presented that fallout from Soviet polar shots is caught in the downward drafts of arctic air and delivered to earth quite rapidly (in about a year), while debris from equatorial explosions probably stays up longer. Largely as a result of Russian polar shots last year, twice as much strontium 90 fell on the U.S. as in any previous year...
...Allen discovered that there are not one but two radiation belts, with a low-intensity slot between them. Studying the tapes, he concluded that the outer belt is made of weaker particles, presumably protons and electrons that come from the sun. At its outer edges, it curves downward in "horns" that hit the atmosphere near the magnetic poles. These horns were what produced the northern lights...
...economic structure: 1) Big Labor's power to force wages up even when demand is falling, and 2) Big Business' tendency to eliminate price competition, set profitable "administered prices," and restrict cornpetition to quality, styling, service, etc. The combined result, says Burns, is that instead of slipping downward when demand declines, prices tend to hold steady during economic downturns, or even go on creeping upward...
When Quincy House, with its independent kitchen, is opened next Fall, Bullitt expressed the hope that menu planning does not "become part of the same bureaucratic pattern." Such a move would result in a "leveling downward toward general mediocrity" in the quality of House food, he added...
Japan has long had a special regard for the navel. The shape of the umbilicus of a newborn baby would be discussed at length, and if it happened to point downward, the parents would brace themselves for a weakling child who would bring them woe. The thunder god Raijin, with his terrifying drums, his great horns and long tusks, was said to have an insatiable appetite for young navels, and mothers had constantly to nag their youngsters to keep themselves well covered up. But for all the national preoccupation with it, the navel in Japan never quite achieved the status...