Word: unevennesses
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...polar regions, while cold polar air flows toward the equator. The planet's eastward rotation skews the movement of air and causes the prevailing westerly winds that blow from North America toward Europe, and roar across the southern oceans. Topographical features, such as land masses and mountains, and uneven heating patterns further alter the air flow. The result is the assortment of high-and low-pressure regions and the winds that give the earth its weather...
Last spring, after some uneven seasons, Les Canadiens returned the Stanley Cup to Quebec by sweeping the Philadelphia Flyers. This season Les Canadiens have outdistanced the rest of the league. On one November night when they were playing St. Louis, the Parti Québécois, which supports independence for the province, swept an election. The temptation to see Les Canadiens as symbolic of the independence movement stirred again. Again, Les Canadiens were more than a hockey team. Now they represented political activism. Such theories are impervious to everything but facts...
...class distribution at the Quad is very uneven. There are very few juniors and seniors and those that are there tend to be quiet and withdrawn," Mike M. Donatelli '78, a South House resident transplanted to Lowell House, said yesterday...
Indeed, many tanker accidents are the result of human error, and there is real reason for concern over the uneven experience and training of tanker captains and crews (see box). What to do? The usual complaint is that worldwide shipping is so diffuse that effective regulation is impossible. As Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Warren Magnuson put it last week: "I don't see how you can have control when you have American-owned ships insured by the British, run by the Greeks, with Italian officers and a Chinese crew...
...difficulties of Malory's spelling and use of archaic words." Throughout The Acts Steinbeck searches for a voice in which to recount the stories; he finds several, none of which are adequate in themselves, no two of which mesh harmoniously on the page. The result is a composite and uneven piece of work, by turns news analysis, history, psychological explanation, novel, poetry and myth. Malory managed to weave these threads together, but Steinbeck hasn...