Word: terming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Global warming - the very term sounds gentle, like a bath that grows pleasantly hotter under the tap. Many people might assume that's how climate change works too, the globe gradually increasing in temperature until we decide to stop it by cutting our carbon emissions. It's a comforting notion, one that gives us time to gauge the steady impact of warming before taking action...
...know that change is at hand? The Nature researchers noticed one potential signal: the sudden variance between two distinct states within one system, known by the less technical term squealing. In an ecological system like a forest, for example, squealing might look like an alternation between two stable states - barren versus fertile - before a drought takes its final toll on the woodland and transforms it into a desert, at which point even monsoons won't bring the field back to life. Fish populations seem to collapse suddenly as well - overfishing causes fluctuations in fish stocks until it passes a threshold...
...Directors, need to approve the renovation before it begins. Despite the inconvenience that the renovation poses for most current students who will have graduated by the time the museum reopens, Manoogian believes the change is well worth it. “This renovation is so important for our long-term liability,” Manoogian says. “It may be a short-term pain, but it is for a long-term good.”—Staff writer Marissa A. Glynias can be reached at mglynias@fas.harvard.edu...
...Under Larry, we put together our really strategic plans and really started to think in a longer-term way about where technology was going,” said Rita P. Murdoch, Dartmouth’s long-time director of support and fiscal services...
...negotiations, and back in Washington, Senate GOP leaders have made no secret of their anxiety about it. "Senator Grassley has been given no authority to negotiate anything by all of us Republicans on that committee," said Jon Kyl of Arizona, the Senate GOP whip. What's more, Grassley's term as ranking Republican on the powerful tax-writing panel will expire at the end of 2010; he stands to assume that spot on the Judiciary Committee, but the Republican leadership could block him from getting it. Things have become so uncomfortable for Grassley at times that he has mused privately...