Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This was the sign meteorologists had been waiting for. Not only does the sharp fall in ocean temperatures signal the breakup of the giant pool of warm water in the tropical Pacific that triggered one of the century's greatest El Ninos, but it may also signal the birth of El Nino's unruly twin sister, the climatological reversal that scientists call La Nina ("the girl...
Overall, organizers said the conference was asuccess. "It was lively and warm and the qualityof the dialogue was very high," Radin said
...their peers and the testing of teachers in their subject every five years. Although the California Federation of Teachers has endorsed Davis in the general election against Republican Dan Lungren, it was a reluctant endorsement; and Davis has accepted it reluctantly. "Teacher testing and evaluation are not things that warm the hearts of people in the teachers' unions," says Davis' campaign manager, Garry South. Meanwhile, Massachusetts Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry said in June that "no teacher should have a lock...
...hand, we ask 1990s boys to be sensitive and expressive, and on the other, we saddle them with the culture's outdated notions of masculinity. The result is what Pollack calls the ever present "boy code"--a stoic, uncommunicative, invulnerable stance that does not allow boys to be the warm, empathic human beings they are. The "gender straitjacketing" starts, Pollack says, during the early years, when boys suffer their first and most momentous trauma: premature separation from their well-meaning mothers. Fearful that maintaining a close connection will result in the shaming of their sons (name calling from peers, disapproval...
...LIAISON DANGEREUSE] The commander in chief of British forces in the American Colonies, his affair with the wife of a subordinate prompted the ditty: "Sir William, he, as snug as a flea/ Lay all this time a-snoring/ Nor dreamed of harm, as he lay warm/ In bed with Mrs. Loring...