Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jovian in proportions, with a diameter of more than 100,000 miles, though they are very thinly dispersed. In 1969 and 1970, NASA'S Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO-2) discovered that the coma of comets is surrounded by a still larger ball of wispy hydrogen that may far exceed the sun's diameter of 860,000 miles...
...report, prepared by Steven L. Kest '74, is a 39-page barrage of facts and statistics which makes an impressive case for ACORN's contentions that federal standards on sulfur dioxide levels are not enough to safeguard crops' and people's health, that AP&L's plant emissions would exceed federal standards anyway, and that AP&L's claim that adequate control systems do not exist is just wrong. Unless AP&L can produce convincing counter-evidence, or the IRRC's report clearly demonstrates that some of ACORN's facts are incorrect, Harvard, as the largest and technically most expert...
Taxes on the property will rise to $16,000 in 1974 from $7380 in 1973. Taxes alone now exceed the yearly $12,000 income from an endowment raised by the Friends of Harvard Rowing to pay for repairs and taxes...
...energy shortage is unearthing a vein of community-enforced morality that many Americans thought ran out with stockades and witch burning. Motorists on some Connecticut and Wisconsin highways have begun honking angrily at drivers who exceed the new lower speed limits. On Interstate 75 near Atlanta last week, one car displayed a sign on its left-side door for every car passing him to see: "You too, 50 m.p.h." Jim Hunt, a filling-station operator in suburban Atlanta, has developed his own righteous way of rationing. He gives drivers of sub-compact cars all the gasoline they want, but limits...
...have been postponed until the end of December, but the campaign has already officially resumed. The picture, though, is much more complicated than it was before the Arab attack. The Israeli people have had a dual reaction to the war. The heavy toll in lives--official totals will probably exceed 2000--has stunned the general public. In a nation of two--and--a--half million, the loss of over 2000 young men in three weeks is crippling. In every household, the family has lost either a son or a cousin. An atmosphere of national grief has set in, immediately apparent...