Word: faintly
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...fact, there is still a faint but perceptible chance that Moscow might try something similar this time around. Even though the Soviets have announced unconditional plans to send a full team of athletes to the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, they have not yet given such a commitment for Seoul. Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov last week referred to a Jan. 17 deadline by which countries must accept the Olympic invitation. "When we approach that deadline," said Gerasimov, "our sportsmen will give their answer." If the Soviets should decide to stay home, other Communist countries might decide...
...generally do not feed below 3,000 ft., thus making it unnecessary to protect cable below that depth. They have also discovered previously unknown species of fish. But they still do not know why the new cable is so appealing. The favored theory: sharks attack the lines after detecting faint electric fields that trigger a feeding reflex. "Who knows why they are attracted to it?" muses Gary Nelson, chief of ichthyology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. "Sharks aren't all that predictable...
...computer applications. The spotlight then shifted to IBM Researchers Robert Laibowitz and Roger Koch, who reported that they had made their own thin film into a working gadget called a SQUID (for superconducting quantum interference device). Such tools are already used in low-temperature versions to measure extremely faint magnetic fields. They are also employed by physicists in the search for elusive gravity waves and magnetic monopoles, predicted by some theories but not yet observed. Medical researchers use SQUIDs to detect the minute fields generated by electrical activity within the brain. High-temperature SQUIDs should make all these searches...
...earliest faint stirrings of dissent occurred in 1974, when that year's synod departed from the traditional affirmation that apartheid derived directly from Scripture, and said only that apartheid was not in any way contrary to Scripture. That dissent grew stronger in 1980, when eight theologians published a statement protesting the "apparent inability of the institutionalized church in South Africa to fulfill its God-given calling of reconciliation . . . between different race groups." In 1982 the eight grew to 123 ministers calling on the N.G.K. to play a "much greater role of reconciliation," and though that year's synod elected...
There is just the faint suspicion that the stories told about all this skulduggery may be exaggerated. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger liked to tell the one about a visit to Moscow when he was a bachelor. The KGB big shot assigned to his tour kept talking out of the side of his mouth about all the lovely girls he could make available to Kissinger at the slightest signal. Kissinger declined each of the three invitations, but he was tempted to say, "Look, send one around, get your pictures and then leave me alone." After that Kissinger carried...