Word: sun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coast [Feb. 7]. A big factor contributing to water damage was the highest tide since record keeping began in the early 1920s. This rare flow was aided by the unusual and simultaneous occurrence of three astronomical events: 1) the earth was within days of its closest approach to the sun, the perihelion; 2) the moon was at its closest approach to the center of the earth, the perigee; and 3) the moon's and sun's gravitational pulls were in alignment at the full moon...
...Instead of a simple concrete floor, for example, the architect, London's Foster Associates, suggested an opaque glass central plaza under the building that would glow, as Munden puts it, "like a carpet of light." The bank's directors also showed interest in a giant, mirrored sun scoop to funnel sunshine into the building's interior (cost: $20 million...
...press. The newspapers praise or torment her according to their own royal whims, and rage when she balks at posing prettily. Diana is in the acutely uncomfortable position of being the world's most gawked-at celebrity, "bigger than Streisand, bigger than the Beatles," according to veteran London Sun Photographer Arthur Edwards. Fanciful stories about her that allege illness, marital squabbles or other bad behavior are weapons in British newspaper circulation wars. Freelance "monkeys"?paparazzi?can make unexpected windfalls with snatched pictures...
...acknowledged star among royal-watchers, did not really say it. The dapper Whitaker has concentrated on the royal family for 14 years?in the process, he says contentedly, traveling around the world several times and moving at increasingly fatter salaries from the Daily Mail to the Express to the Sun to the Star, and finally to the Mirror. He likes the royals. "They all mean a great deal to me," he says. He looks to the Queen for comfort, he says, "because she's jolly solid. We'll miss a story if it's going to upset the Queen...
Similar surveys have been conducted by a Norwegian Computing Center, a Swedish Insurance Company, and a Sun Francisco bank. In each, a higher percentage than at Harvard indicates eyestrain, neck strain and back strain...