Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the princes mostly off limits, the press has grown fidgety on the subject of Charles' consort. Despite widespread sentiment at this time last year that the public would never accept, at Charles' side, the woman Diana once dubbed the "Rottweiler," Camilla and Charles appear to be engaged in a gradual coming-out process--which is not causing much distress to anyone. Not only has Camilla officially met William and Harry; the couple are also "all but living together" at St. James's Palace, according to a piece in the Daily Mail by Diana's good friend Richard...
...knows why these cycles occur. According to Bill Gray, a hurricane expert from Colorado State University, one reason may be a phenomenon known as the "Atlantic conveyor." The subject of much recent research, the conveyor is a gigantic oceanic flywheel that transports cold water from the seas off Iceland and Greenland in a majestic, slow current along the bottom of the ocean to Antarctica, where it surfaces several decades later and flows back north, absorbing heat as it passes the equator. The conveyor seems to have kicked into a faster gear lately, bringing warm equatorial water north before...
...easily have happened already, in fact, except for pure dumb luck. The Weather Channel and CNN's round-the-clock coverage notwithstanding, hurricane forecasting is not as precise as people like to believe. Storms are capricious. Indeed, the National Hurricane Center's warnings, issued 24 hours before landfall, are subject to a 90-mile error in either direction...
...ways in which he diverges from the independent counsel. As one of the frequent communicants at the altar of the Sunday-morning talk shows, Hatch has made it his mission to defend the judge. He's the James Carville of the right on the subject...
...subject was private life, its coziness and order, its covert gestures, its moments of deep-rooted habit and occasionally fragile intimacy, in which the artist is both agent and voyeur. He took this domestic introversion to an extreme--the world of work, for instance, is so thoroughly excluded from his paintings that he didn't even depict his own studio. His world was bounded by the bathroom, the breakfast room, the bedroom and the overgrown garden, its disorder of jasmine, honeysuckle and wisteria as exotically suffused with color as Fiji, though glimpsed through French windows...