Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. Next stop: Neptune. From earth, Neptune appears as a tiny, fuzzy green ball of light, and its major moon, Triton, as an orange dot. Voyager will provide the first closeup view of both. Triton is especially tantalizing, since it is believed to have its own thin atmosphere of methane, and may be partly covered by oceans of liquid nitrogen...
...permits American farmers to use some 320 pesticides on food. However, the scientific information on many of them is thin. In 1970 pesticide regulation was removed from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and turned over to the fledgling EPA. Most of the chemicals then in use were grandfathered into approval without extensive tests to document their safety; 66 of the 320 pesticides have since been classified as carcinogens by the Government...
Western conservatives object that Yalta Two would simply concede continued Soviet dominance over the area. They do not favor cementing the status quo or illogically and unrealistically attempting to extend NATO's influence into the East. Instead, they recommend that both sides try to thin out their troop presence...
...that NATO was not interested in a "competitive striptease." The plan, which he said went "far beyond bean counting," in essence called for deep cuts in the Eastern forces, with only minor reductions of up to 10% in NATO dispositions. Baker gave a more philosophical speech, but it was thin on specifics and failed to counter Shevardnadze's longer-range proposals...
...foot and crouching on the floor of a dirty clothes closet, Father Lawrence Martin Jenco of Catholic Relief Services (kidnaped Jan. 8, 1985) peers under his blindfold at the new arrival. A month later, they are led down to the dungeon, a basement partitioned into cramped cells with thin plasterboard, and held prisoner with others: William Buckley, Beirut station chief of the CIA (kidnaped March 16, 1984), the Rev. Benjamin Weir, a Presbyterian missionary (kidnaped May 8, 1984), and eventually David Jacobsen, director of American University Hospital (kidnaped...