Word: oceaneering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
CRIMSON-UMASS--The easiest pick of all. Cambridge's only breakfast-table daily is like the ocean--it can't be stopped. Crimson 23, Collegian...
...either polar region. If some of this heat were not transported away from the tropics, average equatorial temperatures would probably begin to rise dangerously. Fortunately, the earth has some handy mechanisms for carrying heat from the tropics toward the poles. Perhaps a third of this heat is distributed by ocean currents. The rest is transported by movement of the atmosphere. A large portion of this atmospheric heat−the exact percentage is unknown−is picked up from the sea by tropical storms...
...that he was fascinated by the Vietnamese people's values, life style and mystical religion. He claimed it transformed his life, and he became disgusted with Western "consumerism and role-playing." His stay in Southeast Asia laid the groundwork for his present research on environmental balance, particularly in the ocean...
...about 24 of the 30 acres that, by Nixon's accounting, he had originally bought. Put another way, the President managed to recover 83% of his original purchase price by selling off 80% of his land-holding on to his house and six acres of choice ocean-front land in the bargain. Furthermore, since the entire plot was (and still is) held in trust by Los Angeles' Title Insurance & Trust Co., what B. & C. actually bought was a "beneficial interest" in the trust - an arrangement that might make it difficult for the company to develop its share...
...hijacked the plane? "I wanted to show the Israelis that not all Arabs are enemies of Israel and the Jews and want to throw them into the ocean...