Word: layering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This dramatic account added one more layer of controversy to a case that has troubled the intelligence community for two years. But as with Bracy's confession, Government investigators have nothing to substantiate it. In yet another twist to the controversy, a highly classified intelligence-community assessment that circulated in the Government several months ago concluded that there is no credible evidence that the Moscow code room was penetrated. Perhaps only the KGB will ever know for sure. But on the basis of more than 60 interviews with diplomatic, intelligence and military officials, including many of those involved...
...might think you'd have better luck across the Yard at University Hall, the home of the administration of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). It is true that the people who run FAS are one bureaucratic layer closer to students, but that does not mean they are necessarily eager to cater to the needs of undergraduates...
...call the QBO, or quasi-biennial oscillation. Depending on the direction of the QBO flow, Labitzke and Van Loon found, solar maximums and minimums seem linked to changes in air pressure, temperatures, the number of storms and perhaps even the size of the notorious hole in the Antarctic ozone layer...
...telltale seismic-wave patterns also suggest that while the sun's outer layer rotates faster at the equator than at the poles, the inner region rotates uniformly. This creates a shear force, like the blades of scissors sliding past each other, that Harvey suspects distorts the magnetic field, giving rise to the solar cycle...
...beneficence, the sun is not too kind to those who, intentionally or not, overexpose themselves to its warming rays. While most of the harmful solar radiation is absorbed by the ozone layer, enough ultraviolet light gets through the atmosphere to endanger the unwary...