Word: inched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home of Peking University President Ding Shisun, demanding that he intercede on behalf of the detainees, who they claimed were 24 in number. Speaking through a megaphone, Ding promised to seek their release. But the crowd was in no mood to disperse, despite subzero temperatures and a fresh two-inch snowfall. Instead, it picked up additional demonstrators in a march through the campus and from nearby People's University, and set out across White Stone Bridge toward Tiananmen. At its height the throng numbered around...
...fission in the sky) dates back 23 years -- and was designed to last only 20. The parts are worn, the pumps and wiring often fail, the whole reactor conks out 20 to 25 times a year. The graphite casing that holds the nuclear rods is swelling by nearly an inch a year, and will collide with the overhead shielding by the middle of the next decade. Yet since Hanford is a federally owned weapons maker, it is not subject to the safety standards that the Government imposed on commercial nuclear plants...
...always obvious, Matthews has titles for most of the nonrepresentatioal works he does. "Some people don't see the titles in the works but they are there. The titles like the works themselves are variations on a theme. Another canvas immediately visible in the stockroom is a 36x36 inch work of muted blue, green, red and jet black. Housed in the square pattern are 16 fish. Some of the squares are divided into triangles, circles serve as eyes. The simple shapes form a complex pattern. One must look carefully for all the fish...
...copy of the magazine you are now holding in your hands is destined for a time capsule, a green-tinted 18-inch steel cube, to be deposited in the museum of the Statue of Liberty. In addition to this week's TIME, which contains memorable photographs of 1986 and a letter to the people of 2086 by Senior Writer Roger Rosenblatt, the capsule will include high-quality original prints of the pictures in this week's Images section, as well as next week's Man of the Year issue. When the container is opened, the contents should help explain much...
Students disagree over whether wings are a better deal than 'za. A two-pound order of the wings costs $4.85 and contains about 20 wings, while a 16-inch cheese pizza runs about $7.00 from Pizza Wheel and Pizza Ring, who also deliver to campus...