Word: gradual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advance in technology. Old-fashioned sunlamps emit strong doses of ultraviolet radiation, which can cause a quick sunburn if one is not careful. New tanning machines, however, block out most of the sunburn-linked beta rays (UVB) in favor of alpha rays (UVA), which promote a more gradual tan. The most popular device for soaking up UVA is a clamshell-like tanning bed. The customer lies down on a Plexiglas surface, closes the lid and relaxes as lights from above and below bake him to a golden brown...
...Administration announced last week that the 250 U.S. troops remaining in Grenada will begin a five-month withdrawal plan in mid-April. At the same time, more than 400 troops from other Caribbean nations who are stationed in Grenada will begin a gradual evacuation, leaving the security of the tiny island completely in the hands of its own 560-member police force. Meanwhile, the military had another Grenada revelation last week: five Army men and three Marines had broken the law by returning from the Caribbean island with Soviet- made automatic rifles obtained during the invasion in 1983. Most...
...metalworks and mines in Ciudad Guayana, 300,000 people, many of them workers, greeted John Paul warmly when he said, "How long will the men of the Third World have to support unjustly the primacy of economic processes over inviolable human rights?" In Quito, Ecuador, he called for the "gradual disappearance of the intolerable abyss" between rich and poor, and appealed for land reform and medical and old-age protection for workers. At mountainous Latacunga, Ecuador, he met 250,000 members of deprived indigenous tribes, who greeted him with painted faces amid a din of pipes and drums. The Pope...
Japan's leaders recognize the need to open up their economy to more foreign goods. The process, though, will be gradual. In the meantime, the Japanese will continue to accumulate trade surpluses and scout around the world for ways to invest their treasure trove both productively and profitably...
...average weight, not on each rower's maximum weight which meant," says Dietz, "that sometimes one had to pick boats by weight and not by skill." The new system, she adds, "not only allows for people to know in advance what they have to weight but encourages slow and gradual weight loss...