Word: interrupts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...victims. Atmospheric scientists Richard Turco of UCLA and Ralph Cicerone of U.C. Irvine are exploring the idea of injecting into the stratosphere two chemicals -- propane and ethane -- that would combine with CFCs to produce an extremely weak, and therefore environmentally safe, solution of hydrochloric acid. That strategy would interrupt the CFCs' 100-year destruction cycle, and has the further advantage of requiring only 1,000 jumbo-jet flights over a single, critical 30-day period every year for the next several decades. The products involved are readily available. However, in order for the process to work efficiently, these chemicals must...
...Yale officials said that, if negotiations fail, they are ready for a strike which they said would not interrupt life at the university...
...Levy and Anne Rippey's Medieval costumes and Kathryn Smith's props manage to convey a sense of the era without an extensive set. Unfortunately, clumsy set changes interrupt the flow of action and leave the audience impatiently waiting for the next scene...
...narrative of Maus would leave the reader breathless with disgust if Spiegelman did not often interrupt it to tell the story of his relationship with his father. The survivor's tale which seems the main thread of Maus's narrative is made more palpable as the reader gets to know Vladek both in camp life and "ordinary" life...
Jeffries said: "This interview is over. I'm gonna have to take this tape." I tried to interrupt him when he started talking, but he ignored...