Word: massing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...basis, and our sales are down somewhat, but on particular days, they are actually ahead of where we were last year. It’s a mixed picture.” Paul MacDonald, owner of Leavitt and Peirce—the 125-year-old tobacco and specialty shop on Mass. Ave—said he was confident that his store’s unique offerings and high-quality service would keep it afloat during the economic storm. He speculated that the actual weather—or even the parking situation in Cambridge—may have a greater effect...
...Java but I don't think there will be on a larger scale as people have seen the suffering and the majority of Muslims disagree with what they did," says Masdar Hilmy, a professor at the State Islamic University of Islam in Surabaya and an expert on radical Islam. "Mass organizations like the Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah have also called on their followers to not be influenced by radical propaganda...
...questions that these exhibits continue to raise is, How was this possible in a democracy? Why didn't the fire department put out the fires?" says Andreas Nachama, director of the Topography of Terror Foundation, an independent research foundation that is sponsoring the Kristallnacht exhibit. The mass-circulation Bild newspaper set aside its usual fare of crime and sports to show one of Berlin's largest synagogues in flames under the headline "The Night that the Synagogues Burned!" while German TV is carrying documentaries about the pogrom...
...inner ring appears identical in composition and mass to the asteroid belt in our solar system located between Mars and Jupiter, and the outer one is 20 astronomical units from Epsilon Eridani—about the distance from Uranus to the Sun. The outer ring of icy mini-planets surrounding Epsilon Eridani is similar to the Kuiper Belt that is located just beyond Pluto...
...real Holy Grail here that astronomers are looking for in my field is to be able to say, here, somewhere, is a planet that resembles the Earth—not only in size or mass, but also in composition and atmospheric conditions,” Backman said, referring to the possibility of finding “a life-bearing planet...