Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...police continue to gather details about the disturbed and reclusive young man, those who survived Terres' perverse revenge are trying to resume their lives. Hauptmann returned to the same McDonald's the next day. "I had to go back," says the college sophomore. "My stomach was in knots, but it's still a public place...
...student interns. The youngsters "provide an energy that is very refreshing," says Debara Thornton-Klein of the human- resources department for all Time Inc. magazines. "It's infectious." In return the students receive a little money and a lot of experience. Since each works at only one magazine, we gather them at regular brown-bag lunches so they learn about the company's various publications. Most are entering their senior year of college and have experience on campus publications...
...latest twist in the global-warming equation involves the effects of the tiny droplets of sulfuric acid that gather in the atmosphere wherever fossil fuels are burned. These droplets help reflect sunlight, counteracting the effects of greenhouse gases. But the cooling may not be concentrated in exactly the same place as the heating, says Stephen Schneider, a climatologist at Stanford. He notes that unlike greenhouse gases, which disperse rapidly around the globe, the sulfate droplets tend to concentrate over industrialized regions -- the U.S., Europe, the former Soviet Union. The result, he says, may be a localized skewing of the weather...
...life has always been seen as a phenomenon of the big city, a place where homosexual men and women can gather and find safety in numbers. But civil rights activism has led many to reveal their existence in the countryside, hoping to change the minds of their neighbors and bring the movement home. That also involves tremendous risks. Says Rod Harrington, a gay farmer in northwest Missouri: "The idea in rural America is that gays and lesbians exist -- we just don't want to know about them." And while the grass-roots strategy may win friends and influence neighbors...
...government decision makers. What they have not done, the officials insist, is go out and steal trade secrets to pass on to American firms. The agencies do sometimes tip off companies they learn are being targeted by foreign agents, but they will not get into "offensive" gathering of commercial information for domestic firms. They also routinely gather intelligence on the positions of foreign governments in trade negotiations with the U.S., possible scientific breakthroughs in foreign laboratories, banking decisions and secret deals that impinge on U.S. interests...