Word: irregularities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shotgun-toting attaches, the irregular ruffians who back up the military, boasted that they would fend off any foreign invasion. "We turned their boat back once, and we will turn them back again," claimed a gunman. "When the Americans land, we will be issued grenades and M1s. We are supposed to start firing right away to keep control of the population." He said his superiors had warned that if a U.S. invasion succeeds, "they will make certain the attaches get no jobs and don't eat" -- an effective threat in a country where only the luckiest have work or regular...
...Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, the army strongman blocking the return of democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, cavalierly engineered the installation of an 81-year-old crony as the military's handpicked President, in direct challenge to the U.S. A minority of right-wing legislators, including eight elevated after irregular elections organized by the military last year, declared that under the constitution, Aristide's long absence left them no choice but to appoint a successor. As a 21-gun salute boomed over the capital, Supreme Court Justice Emile Jonassaint was sworn in, in a technical coup intended to prevent Aristide...
...Johns Hopkins Oncology Center have shown that a cell must sustain damage to at least three tumor-suppressor genes and one oncogene. The first mutation spurs the growth of the cell, triggering the formation of a benign polyp. Later changes cause the polyp to expand and become increasingly irregular in shape. By the time a cell in this growing mass suffers a final, fateful hit to its DNA, many decades may have gone...
...number of theories have been floated to explain these irregular, rapid variations. The leading one, advanced by Lamont-Doherty's Wallace Broecker and George Denton of the University of Maine, involves a kind of cyclic ocean current that has been likened to a conveyer belt. Broecker and Denton note that a stream of unusually salty (and thus especially dense) water flows underneath the Gulf Stream as it moves from the tropics to the North Atlantic. When this salty stream reaches the far north, it is forced to the surface as water above it is blown aside by the winds...
...broken the barriers of the canvas and expanded the field of space in order to create large planes of pure color--or in this case, pure shades. Louise Nevelson blurs the lines of sculpture and painting in Study for Sky Covenant (1973) and Total Totality. She frames numerous, irregular shapes of wood pieces and paints them black. Because of the different textures, angles, and spaces of these forms, different shadows are created and provide the works with interesting color and tones...