Word: larger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush Administration also believed too much in what has become conventional wisdom, even among moderates: arms control is only one item on the larger agenda; the U.S. must simultaneously press the Kremlin on human rights and regional conflicts. All true. But arms control has always had a special role. In good times and bad, it keeps the superpowers talking about their one supreme mutual interest, the avoidance of war. Whichever side seems more engaged in that process is going to have an advantage on other issues and with other countries...
...pushed his feudal and devout country into the modern, secular world too far and too fast, using torture and execution to suppress dissent. In addition, Khomeini's place in the world of Shi'ite theology gave him a platform. Unlike Sunni Muslims, members of Islam's other, much larger branch, Shi'ites believe in an intermediary between God and man. In Shi'ism's first centuries, this role of mediator was played by the Twelve Imams, who were thought to be the rightful successors to the Prophet Muhammad and who combined religious and secular authority. Most Shi'ites continue...
...readers are counseled on fashion. For men: "A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life." For women, four iron rules: "1) No jewelry bigger than your dog; 2) No dog smaller than your purse; 3) No purse larger in diagonal measurement than your waist is in circumference; 4) No pants on waists larger than diagonal measurement of purse + dog + earrings...
Fusion occurs when two small atoms combine to form a larger atom, releasing energy. The Utah researchers reported that when they ran an electric current through a flask containing heavy water and palladium, a sharp increase in water temperature occurred. The pair claimed that atoms of deuterium (a form of hydrogen found in heavy water) entered the palladium and fused together into helium atoms...
...within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Core's 10th anniversary this spring prompted a review that put aside the larger philosophical issues in favor of administrative concerns...