Word: nesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Physicist Norman Ness reported that Voyager's magnetometers had "detected firm evidence" of a Uranian magnetic field about a third the strength of earth's. The existence of the field suggests that the giant planet, which is 64 times as large as the earth in volume but has a mass only 14 1/2 times as great, has a liquid core. Some scientists speculate, however, that the magnetic field may be generated by an electrically charged ocean covering the planet. Some of the larger moons apparently have, or at one time had, crustal movements that created the fault zones and valleys...
...Taken together, the sudden flurry of shifts and departures creates unexpected leadership gaps only two months after Reagan declared that he saw no need "to break up a winning team." Ahead lies an uneasy transition period, during which new aides must learn the delicate busi ness of running the White House. Because the modern presidency has increasingly drawn power to the keepers of the Oval Office, and because Reagan leaves so much of the detail work to underlings, the changes and uncertainty among his advisers are no small matter to the nation...
...Ruth Van Ness Blair...
...every turn, Powell makes Edisto far more than a novel about budding aware ness. As the boy talks he reveals the South's new reconstruction: carpetbaggers who ar rive by jet from the Middle East to buy whole islands, the latest styles in scalawags and gentrification. Simons revisits Charles ton's old Negro market and finds that things have changed: "Bats, rafters, shale, pee, lead paint, clothes wads, the stuck bar ber pole, chili in open pots, all went to dropped ceilings for energy saving, parquet, rest rooms, pastel, jean shops, international flags waving in front...
...Waltham, Mass., the setting of the novel. Even the reticence of his characters may reflect home truths: Henna's officemates have Italian surnames, but they scarcely discuss ethnicity. In time with their times, they share his fervor for feeling American. Yet there are hints of the conscious ness of decades to come: the widow realizes she wants to learn to fend for herself...