Word: moving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reach agreement on such everyday civic responsibilities as park maintenance and refuse collection. It has also headed off some potentially explosive political problems. Last March, for example, the Irish Independence Party, a Catholic group, began pressuring to have the precolonial "Derry" reinstated as the city's official name, a move certain to have aroused widespread Protestant hostility. The council, guided by the SDLP, voted to consider the matter but to take no action, thus defusing the threat...
...ground, all the reminders of that painful land war in Southeast Asia were washed away in atmospherics of amiability. Said Tran Quang Co, head of the North American section of Viet Nam's foreign ministry, prior to a welcoming banquet for the American visitors: "We hope that we can move to a new stage in relations between our two peoples...
...whatever means, the Vietnamese government has "persuaded" about 700,000 people to move to the economic zones during the past three years?far fewer than authorities would like. During the same period, Saigon's population has declined from 4.5 million to 3.5 million; Hanoi would like to see it reduced by another 1 million. Many people, however, manage to escape from the New Economic Zones and return to the former southern capital clandestinely. Communist officials view the recidivism philosophically. Says one: "It's natural. Life is very hard in the New Economic Zones. It's even dangerous, since there...
...Anything crossing this border would be stretched spaghetti-thin, pulverized by gravitational tidal forces, and sucked into the singularity. To an observer outside?say an astronaut watching his abandoned craft plunge into the black hole?the result would be different. Because of relativistic effects, the spacecraft would appear to move ever more slowly, and closer and closer to the event horizon, without ever reaching...
Unlike Laplace's dark star, this Einsteinian black hole?the name was not coined by Physicist Wheeler until the 1960s?had far more finality. Since relativity forbids anything to move faster than light, an idea unknown in classic Newtonian physics, escape was impossible. All the energy in the world could not extract an object from a black hole...