Word: groupings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Areturn to American culture may be the cure for America's decline, but Fallows' specific prescriptions for a group of domestic issues may not be acceptable to the patient. For example, the licensing and other regulation of professions--a recent phenomenon that Fallows says creates barriers for competent people seeking new jobs--is certainly not going to disappear in the near future, despite his recommendations...
Sunspots tend to travel in pairs or groups of opposite polarity, like the ends of horseshoe magnets poking through the solar surface. During one eleven- year cycle, as the blemishes traverse the face of the sun in an east-west direction, the leading spots of each group in the northern hemisphere will generally have positive polarity, the trailing spots negative. In the southern hemisphere, the leading spots will be negative. During the next cycle, the hemisphere polarities will reverse. On average, then, 22 years will pass between solar maximums of the same sunspot polarity. This suggests to many astronomers that...
...opposite polarities, they attract each other," says the Marshall Center's Moore. "The closer they are together, the stronger the pull. Then, as they push past each other, it's like an earthquake fault slipping. In this case the stored energy is released in a flare." In the sunspot group that produced the flares of March, he notes, spots of opposite polarity were close together...
...investigating days are over, Renko neither seeks nor wants this assignment, which threatens his anonymity and possibly his safety. Significant people on the ship would also like to see him remain hidden and humbled. One of his enemies-to-be reminds him of his expulsion from the only group that truly matters in the Soviet Union. Renko replies, "Membership in the Party was too great an honor. I could not bear...
...barriers are going up to keep refugees out, largely by challenging whether they are legitimate refugees. The 1951 U.N. Geneva Convention on Refugees defines a refugee as any uprooted person who has "a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion." Western nations claim that much of the deluge crossing their borders consists of people who are fleeing poverty rather than persecution. Thus the issue of accepting the displaced has become intertwined with policy concerns about controlling immigration. "We are not an immigration country," West German Chancellor Helmut...