Word: existing
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There is no certainty that commercially valuable deposits of minerals exist. Surface rocks contain traces of iron, titanium, low-grade gold, tin, molybdenum, coal, copper and zinc. Gaseous hydrocarbons, sometimes associated with oil, have been found in bottom samples taken from the Ross Sea. But in most cases, says geologist Robert Rutford, president of the University of Texas at Dallas, who did research in Antarctica for more than 20 years, "minerals are less than 1% of the total rock sample analyzed." Moreover, the vicious Antarctic climate would make exploration dangerous and expensive...
...They cannot exist alone in the world, isolated between East and West," he said...
...demands include a 24-hour library (like the ones that exist in most other large universities), a 24-hour, student-run cafeteria (instead of the high-priced, low-quality, weekdays-only Greenhouse Cafe), and a night-time shuttle bus with additional service to the bio labs...
...Hochschild never says whether any legitimate reasons exist for an unequal distribution of housework. Is 50-50 the only just solution? Is it necessarily the happiest under all situations? Should couples automatically feel guilty if the sharing sometimes cannot be perfect...
Rubino, appearing on ABC-TV's "This Week With David Brinkley," said he had not started looking for federal records of U.S. involvement with Noriega that would clear his client, saying it would be "speculation" to discuss what might exist...