Word: dust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...firm of Rolf Jensen and Associates will test the University's $2 million system for sensitivity and stability, making sure that humidity and dust will not continue to trigger off the system. The company will make recommendations in mid-to late May, a spokesman said...
Sagan used the findings of the 1971 "Mariner 9" space mission to Mars to illustrate the after effects of nuclear war. Particles in the Martian atmosphere stirred up by dust storms formed a cloud over the surface of the planet, he said, raising the upper atmospheric temperature while lowering surface temperatures and creating an artificial winter...
...talk, entitled "Dust Storms on Mars and Nuclear War on Earth; A Tale of Two planets," was sponsored by the Harvard extension program, and the Lowell institute of Boston. The Lowell institute sponsors an annual lecture on major issues of the late 1980's. Previous speakers have been Gloria Steinam, George Bundy, and Alfred Kahn...
...inexpert deduction from Miro. But this hardly matters beside the strength of Surls' best work. Notably Working in the Garden, 1981, the massive root system of an oak dug from the ground, seasoned, and then equipped with a demented spiral wooden "cloud" on top - a whirling dust-devil of some sort, studded with eyes and bristling with wooden facsimiles of double-bitted axes. It is an altogether marvelous apparition, one that manages to be funny, menacing, otherworldly and stridently physical all at the same time: a master piece of the special American genre of buckeye surrealism, as lovingly made...
...undoubted reason for the increase is that women find the image of cocaine attractive: heroin is a grubby street product, and PCP, an animal tranquilizer known as angel dust, is the "unemployment drug" because it relieves depression. Some women seem to think that cocaine can bring better orgasms. Says Charlotte Wolter of the Women's Resource Center: "Cocaine is thought of as the champagne of drugs...