Word: warmer
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...government economic planning and built so elaborate a welfare program in Nova Scotia that he was called a Conservative socialist. At the same time, he wants Canada's growing welfare state to be administered in a more businesslike way. Like Pearson-and unlike Diefenbaker-Stanfield believes broadly in warmer relations with the U.S. and more foreign investment in Canada. With his accession, the Conservative Party's main power base will automatically shift from Diefenbaker's Western prairies to the Atlantic provinces. Stanfield will also pay more attention to Ontario and Quebec, Canada's two biggest provinces...
...travel nor thermometers for measuring ancient body temperatures. Instead, he works with collagen, a protein found in human and animal connective tissue and skeletal structures. Aware that the proportion of an imino acid, hydroxyproline, is lower in the collagen of cold-water fish than in fish that swim in warmer waters, Ho reasoned that the composition of collagen in warm-blooded animals might vary with their body temperatures...
Thus, he reasons, they should have been able to adapt to the warmer temperatures that heralded the end of the ice age, and probably became extinct for reasons other than climatic changes...
Despite the widely noted success of Schweppes, Yardley's and Beatles records, British exports to the large and lucrative U.S. consumer market are rarely worth the effort. One reason is that British manufacturers are unfamiliar with U.S. sizes and forget that its warmer climate generally calls for light er fabrics. Another is that they do not understand the quantities in which the U.S. buys. "When the U.S. wants fish hooks," an American buyer recently told a visiting British businessman, "she wants them in millions." To provide the millions-and to help their nation improve its trade balance-a group...
...warmer and sunnier climate, there is ancient Kiev, 490 miles southwest of Moscow, on the Dnieper River. The Ukrainian capital, known as the "Mother of Cities," dates back to the 5th century. It was Christianized by Vladimir I in the 10th century; the main shopping area is still called Street of the Cross. Today a garden city with many parks and chestnut trees, Kiev draws tourists to the gold-domed St. Sophia Cathedral, one of the great masterpieces of Russian architecture, and to the nearby ravine of Babi Yar, the infamous spot commemorated in Evtushenko's poem, where some...