Word: skies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voter approval, 47% to 45%, a vastly improved standing from that of only a year ago. Yet Callaghan and some of his closest advisers were not so sure. Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, in particular, warned the Prime Minister "not to go for the first patch of blue sky." His reasoning: there is a good chance that Britain's economic recovery, notably a decline in inflation from 26% a year in 1975 to less than 8% at present, will have more impact on voters in another six months or so than now. Labor expects another benefit from...
...fires, from the smoky flames of cave dwellers to the searing hearth of a modern steel plant, produce CO2. It makes no difference whether the fire is fueled by wood, coal, oil or gas. The inevitable byproduct is always dumped into what scientists sardonically call the "sewer in the sky...
THIS HOUSE OF SKY: LANDSCAPES OF A WESTERN MIND...
These opening words of This House of Sky whisper up a big promise. They say, on top of all else, that a real writer is at hand. Yet the bright prospect may, at the outset, seem at odds with the vehicle he has chosen for his first book: a personal memoir. The form, after all, is notorious for snaring even gifted writers in thickets of anecdotage and sentiment...
...Soaring high above the atmosphere, which prevents celestial X rays from reaching the earth, they enabled astronomers to begin charting X-ray sources in the heavens. Old radar antennas were converted into sensitive radio telescopes, making it possible for scientists to listen to more of the sky's puzzling beeps, squeals and hums. Some of this noise came from so-called radio galaxies that were all but invisible in the mirrors and lenses of ordinary optical telescopes. Other signals came from the distant and powerful quasars. At Bell Telephone Labs, scientists working on a new satellite communications system even "heard...