Word: thicker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...noxious cloud hanging over Imhausen-Chemie keeps growing thicker. Under fire for its alleged complicity in the building of a poison-gas factory in Libya, the West German chemical company is besieged by criticism from its own employees, who fear their jobs will be lost unless President Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen resigns. Two weeks ago Imhausen's second-in-command took a drug overdose in an apparent suicide attempt. Now comes news that the firm is involved in the illegal production and sale of MDMA, a designer drug commonly known as "ecstasy...
...reading period drags on, the tension gets thicker. If you have only one exam, you get stressed out rereading the material for the fourth time. If you have four exams and three papers, you worry about being able to read everything once...
...heat was thick outside Atlanta's Omni Coliseum, but the nostalgia inside was even thicker. John F. Kennedy Jr. stirred memories of Camelot as he introduced Uncle Ted on Tuesday night. Walter Cronkite and Eric Sevareid, those old TV warriors, were back in the CBS anchor booth. And network reporters, heads cocked into their earphones, mikes at the ready, were trolling the floor for stories as if it all still meant something...
...protected from the fierce solar ultraviolet radiation that rains down on the surface, virtually unobstructed by the Martian atmosphere. Sedimentary rocks in the ancient riverbeds would be an ideal place to hunt for fossils of organisms that may have lived when Mars was more benign, with a thicker atmosphere, warmer climate and running water on its surface...
...know all about their first-grade foibles,their nicknames in sixth grade and the fights theygot into with their older brothers or sisters. Idon't care how much we think we have changed,those things still matter. They are thicker, theyresonate more than the things you can learn atcollege, where everyone has the chance to reinventthemselves. This is no doubt liberating for many,but it requires a severing with the past thatcannot be cost free...