Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deal with Moscow, perhaps in a new treaty that guarantees their sovereign rights. During five decades of Soviet rule, the three republics have watched helplessly as all- powerful ministries in Moscow imposed new industries, regardless of whether they were appropriate to the region. As a result, stretches of white sand beaches along the Baltic coast became too polluted for swimming. An influx of outside manpower threatened to make Latvians a minority in their own homeland. The hardworking Estonians learned to their amazement that by Gorbachev's reckoning, they were supposed to be running a yearly deficit of 500 million rubles...
...tall order, but the National Park Service wants to jack up the 208- ft.-tall, 2,800-ton Cape Hatteras Lighthouse and move it half a mile inland, away from encroaching surf. Only 200 ft. of sand now separates the 118-year-old tower from the churning Atlantic. Cost of the proposed move: $8.8 million. Local residents who have grown up in the shadow of the lighthouse are not yet sold on the idea. "They tell us we can't climb the tower anymore because it has cracks in it, but they can pick it up and move it without...
...again. The result, says astronomer Robert Noyes of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is a "sun ringing like a bell, but not one that is being struck by a clapper. Rather, it is vibrating somewhat like a bell suspended in a sandstorm, continuously struck by tiny grains of sand...
...world's most important centers of solar research." The day after her arrival, Nash looked through a telescope "longer than a football field" to view the rising sun. She glimpsed a stunning, white-hot world swept by turbulence that made it look "grainy, as if sprinkled with sand." At the same time, she saw that "gargantuan sunspots had erupted like a rash" on either side of the solar equator...
...standards for day-care centers as an unwarranted intrusion by Washington. Hatch counters by insisting that conservatives should be as responsive as liberals to the needs of families. Says he: "Should we continue to ignore the problem just because some on the far right have their heads in the sand...