Word: strong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with a strong core of young players and the legendary coaching of Bill Cleary, the hockey team will surely create more than its share of excitement on frigid Friday and Saturday nights at Bright Center...
...process called convection (similar to what occurs in a hot oven). As a result of these massive convection currents and the differing rates of solar rotation, the magnetic lines of force begin wrapping around the sun like ropes. The wrapping action stretches the ropes and creates magnetic fields so strong that they repel the surrounding solar gases. In effect, this makes the magnetic regions lighter than the gases, and they begin to rise. Some reach the surface and become sunspots, dark because they are cooler than surrounding incandescent gases...
...point: on June 12 Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art abruptly canceled an exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe's work, which included sadomasochistic and homoerotic photographs. "We really felt this exhibit was at the wrong place at the wrong time," explained museum director Christina Orr-Cahall. "We had the strong potential to become some persons' political platform...
...film's methods--the acting, direction, cinematography and music--are strong, beautiful, if sometimes convoluted. The importance of its message is unmeasurable despite its current cliche status...
...people. "It is time for the American public and our Administration to say that enough is enough," Bush said. If the House weakened the stringent new regulations of the bill, the President warned, he would veto it. By week's end Bush prevailed when the House approved a strong bailout bill by a vote of 320 to 97. In all, 46 Republicans voted against the measure. Since the Senate passed a similar version in April, Bush's plan to rescue the thrift industry is likely to go into effect next month...