Word: ly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Canberra updated the old concept with some notable innovations, including the plasma-creating fuse. They also increased the gun's muzzle velocity by resorting to an unusual power source: a huge homopolar electric generator which uses two rapidly spinning flywheels to build up and store electricity. In bare ly a second the Canberra homopolar de livered as many as 500 megajoules of direct current - enough to light up a small city. Such a quick surge is essential for rapid buildup of the propelling magnetic field. Eventually, they were able to deliver the electromagnetic kick even quicker, and accelerated small...
Though borrowing by corporations has helped stimulate demand for money until now, bankers, businessmen and economists expect the looming business slowdown to allow rates to fall back slight ly. Says Milton Hudson, a senior vice president for Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.: "These current rates are going to hurt economic activity as well as pinch the demand for credit. We are expecting no real growth at all during the first quarter of 1981, and it will be a close call as to whether or not the economy will actually decline...
...OPEC's petro powers will drain as much as $570 billion from the world's oil-thirsty economies. Hardest hit will be the less developed countries. With their credit lines stretched to the snapping point, the LDCs may need $70 billion more than international banks are like ly to provide. Result: a potentially smoldering powder keg of political unrest in the Third World...
...York City, where it was founded, Lon don, where Blavatsky had her wildest suc cess, and Adyar, a suburb of Madras, where she set up her headquarters). The Victorian age had a great hankering for table rapping, poltergeists, spirit writing and spooks of all sorts. H.P.B. was a fair ly good parlor conjurer (she learned some of her tricks from a Coptic magician in Cairo), and she was quite unashamed about the use of confederates and apparatus. She specialized, rather charmingly, in the invisible mending of broken crock ery and in small gifts and chatty letters from a society...
...honor, in order to achieve his goal. We cannot believe the U.S. Government's claims to humanitarian motives. Is the Shah alone a human being? Aren't 35 million Iranians human beings? Weren't the Vietnamese human beings? We clearly see what crimes are committed now in southern Lebanon ly see what crimes are committed now in southern Lebanon with Carter's approval...