Word: sun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sun Ji Cannon...
...after her 59th birthday, the Prime Minister attended morning services at the village church of St. Peter and St. Paul near her official country residence, Chequers. She left the services visibly moved. "It was a lovely morning - we have not had many lovely days," she said later. "The sun was coming through the stained-glass windows and falling on some flowers across the church. It just occurred to me that this was the day I was meant not to see. And then, all of a sudden, I thought there are some of my dearest friends who are not seeing this...
...unified field theory, which would link the four forces of nature in a single elegant set of equations. Two of those forces are familiar: electromagnetism, which lights bulbs and makes clothes cling; and gravity, which holds humans to the ground and determines the earth's orbit around the sun. The remaining two are more exotic: the so-called strong force, which binds together the particles in a nucleus; and the weak force, which controls radioactive decay...
...intertwined are the operations in the U.S. and Canada that the 36,500 Canadian GM workers can disrupt production throughout the GM system in both countries. The Windsor trim plant, for instance, produces seat backs, seat cushions and sun visors for every domestic GM assembly plant. Since GM, like other automakers, has adopted new materials-handling techniques that keep inventories low, it could run out of vital parts in just a few days. Even worse, its dealers in both the U.S. and Canada could find themselves quickly short of new models, in part because new-car stocks are still depleted...
...Even his symbolism leaves its traces. One cannot see the purple underlights in ploughed furrows against the sunset without thinking of the strange, dull mauve luminescence that persvades the earth in The Sower, helping suggest that this dark creature fecundating the soil under the citron disk of the declining sun is some kind of local deity, an agrestic harvest god. One apple tree will evoke the Japanese roots of Van Gogh's spike line; another will suggest how Piet Mondrian's apple trees (and with them, his early sense of grids and twinkling interstices) relate to Van Gogh...