Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eyes of the ancient Greeks, and until recently, no one could say for sure whether the myriad galaxies were organized in some meaningful way. Astrophysicists are fiercely competing to discover how the universe evolved into its present structure, but they cannot test their theories until they know what that structure...
...million light-years wide, 500 million long and perhaps 15 million thick. It looks like a single structure, but the scientists say it may instead be made up of the walls of adjacent bubbles. Says Geller: "Because it runs off the edge of our survey, we don't know how big it really...
...organized attempt to change Government and airline policies and win compensation for their loss. Embittered after countless run-ins with unresponsive and evasive officials, their early efforts to lobby for improved airline safety quickly hardened into demands for the British, German and U.S. governments to disclose what they know about the bombing. Bert Ammerman, a high school assistant principal who lost his brother Tom and now heads a group called Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, calls Washington a "cesspool of unaccountability." After months of lobbying Congress and a meeting with President Bush, the families finally persuaded the Administration...
...know that the word socialism smells like the devil in the U.S., but it shouldn't be that way. The Communists expropriated the word socialism, so people now identify it with Marxism-Leninism...
...People in Washington should realize that the world is changing. Five years ago, who would have hoped for the extraordinary opening in East-West relations? I know that the Non-Aligned Movement, which represents some 120 nations, is often criticized, especially by industrialized countries, for its radical positions and for the way it acts in concert. But the fact remains that the Non-Aligned Movement has led to a new awareness among developing countries. The purpose is not conflict and confrontation, but dialogue...