Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anticipation of the fireworks, astronomers scheduled a two-week, worldwide solar-observation period during the second half of June. The project was timed to benefit from the observations of the Solar Maximum Mission satellite (nicknamed Solar Max) before it plunges to its death. Lofted into earth orbit in 1980 to monitor the sun's activity, the satellite is gradually descending and will probably re-enter the earth's atmosphere in November and be incinerated. Solar Max's readings of the sun's activity were coordinated with observations made all over the world by ground-based telescopes and instruments mounted...
Among the first to feel the effects of the flare's fury was the orbiting Solar Max. As the radiation saturated Solar Max's instruments, a NASA spokesman reported, "the satellite was stunned for a minute and then recovered." Heated by the incoming blast of radiation, the upper fringe of the atmosphere expanded farther into space. Low-orbiting satellites, encountering that fringe and running into increasing drag, slowed and dropped into still lower orbits. A secret Defense Department satellite began a premature and fatal tumble, and the tracking system that keeps exact tabs on some 19,000 objects in earth...
...Solar Max has undermined those arguments. A sensitive radiometer aboard the satellite has confirmed that between 1980 and 1986 average solar output declined one-tenth of 1%, then leveled off, and now has begun to climb. The finding strongly suggests that solar radiation varies with the sunspot cycle and that the solar constant is not that constant after...
...mayor: "If I ran tomorrow morning, I could beat anybody in this town." As for the allegations of dishonesty, "If all this corruption was going on, I should be in jail." Some of his staunchest supporters now see the emperor without his clothes. For 15 years, Washington power broker Max Berry, a wealthy international trade lawyer, raised money and campaigned for Barry. Berry used to defend him. Today he gripes, "It's just a matter of time before the next thing hits. It's hard not to like him, but he's a rascal, and he ought to be thrown...
Gross refuses to disclose his sales, but says his customers include "convenience-store clerks and investment bankers." Not everyone is amused. Max Baril, chairman of the Rodeo Drive Association, the trade group for the chic thoroughfare, says the garbage idea stinks. Says he: "I take great offense that Mr. Gross calls our residents filthy." Not even filthy rich...