Word: procession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to being the energy source for the sun and other stars, fusion is also the process that powers hydrogen bombs...
...SWAPO incursions allowed South Africa, which agreed to the independence plan only grudgingly, a rare opportunity to cry foul. Calling the violations a "grave situation," Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha warned that the Namibian peace process "could collapse within hours." Pretoria applied pressure on UNTAG's Finnish commander, Martti Ahtisaari, to reactivate some South African military forces and ordered others back to service on its own. Backed by Western public opinion for once, South Africa continued to threaten an end to the treaty. Declared Foreign Minister Botha: "SWAPO must surrender, lay down their arms, hoist a white flag...
...Eastern's hard-bargaining machinists. They walked out last month and the carrier was forced into bankruptcy when the airline's pilots refused to cross picket lines. Even if Ueberroth wins labor peace, the Eastern sale must be approved by the federal bankruptcy court and Eastern's creditors, a process that could take months. Once he is firmly at the controls, Ueberroth must struggle to fill his planes with consumers who have switched to other airlines while most Eastern flights have been grounded. As Ueberroth put it, "We're going to have to win back every customer...
Then the details of the experiment began to emerge. By an informal process known as "publication by fax," copies of a paper Pons and Fleischmann had prepared began to circulate from lab to lab. Next, one of the best-known figures in the field, physicist Steven Jones of Brigham Young University, announced that he too had achieved fusion in a jar, although, significantly, with far lower energy output. Even a pair of Hungarian scientists claimed to have carried out room-temperature fusion...
Nuclear fusion, the process that fires the sun, usually occurs when two atoms are squeezed together at very high temperatures to make one new atom. For example, two atoms of deuterium -- an isotope of hydrogen -- can be fused to form a helium atom and a neutron, releasing a sizable burst of energy. But before that can occur, deuterium nuclei generally need to be compressed with sufficient force to overcome their mutually repellent electrical charges. In H-bombs, that force is supplied by the detonation of an A-bomb. Conventional fusion techniques require giant magnets, powerful laser beams and particle accelerators...