Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remote from any obvious sources of additional moisture. In the continent's Dry Valleys region, the lake ice seems to be thinning. It actually rained briefly at the American base in McMurdo Sound this year. The Wordie Ice Shelf on the Antarctic peninsula has all but collapsed, signaling a retreat of the northern limit of permanent ice on the continent. And in the 1970s a portion of the sea-ice apron as big as California disappeared for three years...
...these changes fall within the normal ebb and flow of climate variation on the continent? Or, in concert with other changes afoot around the world--the retreat of glaciers in Europe and North America, the increasing range of cold-intolerant plants and insects, the increase in extreme weather events--do they signal that human tampering with the atmosphere is affecting the global climate...
...PBHA Board of Trustees retreat last weekend, concerns about the ability of some Board members to represent PBHA student leaders were raised and acknowledged, according to PBHA President Roy E. Bahat...
...evening of March 21, most of us had just begun our retreat from academics and settled into the routine of relaxation we hope for on spring break. On that same evening, however, Lenard Clark, a 13-year-old black boy, was savagely beaten and left for dead in an alley...
...warm and fuzzy Tickle Me Newtie. He seemed to go out of his way to lower his profile and not give offense. For weeks the public explanation for Gingrich's disappearance was that he was strategizing about the budget; yet when asked about his plans at the January G.O.P. retreat in Williamsburg, Virginia, Gingrich offered vague options instead of a course of action...