Word: moving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peter Sprague, Advent president, was unavailable for comment yesterday. He said in late December, when the move, was announced, that the company was leaving "purely for economic reasons...
...broke out at the Doshan Tappeh air force base in eastern Tehran; it was provoked by a skirmish between airmen supporting Khomeini and others loyal to the government. The Khomeini contingent was reinforced by thousands of civilians who rushed to the area, in what appeared to be a preplanned move. Joining them later were 8,000 leftists of the "Saihkal Marxist Group," which takes its name from a Caspian village seized by the Communists 14 years ago. As the crowds swirled into the area, leaders with bullhorns announced that men with military experience could pick up weapons at a nearby...
...Prime Minister's only support was from the military-and even that proved to be illusory. In Isfahan and other Iranian cities, Khomeini supporters occupied municipal offices. Bazargan, however, made no move to seize any ministries in Tehran-not that there was much to seize. The majority of government employees had declared their rejection of Bakhtiar's regime, and even some staff members in his own office went on strike...
...depend on the relative motion of observers. The only absolute remaining is the speed of light. Out of this theorizing emerged some bizarre conclusions about the effect of so-called relativistic speeds, those near the velocity of light. As an observer on earth, for example, watches a spacecraft move away at about 260,000 km (160,-000 miles) per second, time aboard the ship (assuming he is able to see the ship's clock) seems to him to move at only half the rate that it would on earth. The mass of the ship and everything on it appear...
...move had some bitter consequences. After the outbreak of hostilities, Einstein, a socialist and pacifist, was one of four German intellectuals who signed a manifesto condemning the war. His wife and their two sons had returned to Switzerland. Within a few years the separation led to divorce. In a characteristic gesture of generosity, Einstein had agreed to give the money from his anticipated Nobel Prize to his family. (The $30,000 prize was finally announced in 1922?for his photoelectric theory. Relativity, still not universally accepted among scientists, was only hinted at in the Nobel citation.) Shortly after the divorce...