Word: warms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where the painstaking peace process has been rocked by horrible killings in the past few months, hardly seems a promising destination for a politician searching for a bit of uplift and optimism. But last week after two fruitless days in Moscow, President Bill Clinton flew into Belfast to a warm welcome from cheering crowds and to celebrate what, despite bombings and burnings, still looks like a major foreign policy triumph for his Administration. "The people of Northern Ireland," said British Prime Minister Tony Blair in welcoming Clinton, "owe you a deep debt of gratitude. No President of the United States...
...faces of SOHO's solar panels tilt more and more toward the sun, controllers are alternately charging the batteries and using them to warm SOHO's slushy on-board hydrazine fuel, which nearly froze during the craft's dormancy. The hydrazine, when fully thawed, will be used to fire thrusters in a series of brief burns. That procedure should halt SOHO's spin, stabilize the observatory and face its solar panels directly toward...
Right on both counts. The unemployment rate, 4.5% in July, is close to a 28-year low, and anecdotes abound of employers desperate to put any warm body on the payroll. But people in their 60s or 50s--and sometimes even in their 40s--still have inordinate trouble holding on to the well-paid and responsible positions they have spent long careers working up to or finding jobs commensurate with their abilities and experience. Moreover, recent court decisions have made age bias even harder to prove than at any other time during the 31 years the Age Discrimination in Employment...
...from the seas off Iceland and Greenland in a majestic, slow current along the bottom of the ocean to Antarctica, where it surfaces several decades later and flows back north, absorbing heat as it passes the equator. The conveyor seems to have kicked into a faster gear lately, bringing warm equatorial water north before it can cool. Hurricanes draw their energy from warm water...
Night in New Jersey. A soft, warm rain is falling. You are standing on Hill's front porch. Hill bought the house for her parents and has her own place nearby, but she's been living here as she readies herself for the birth of her child. Hill's mom helps with the baby, as does Hill's boyfriend Rohan Marley, the son of Bob Marley and the father of both Zion and Hill's unborn child. Hill says the two have "plans to marry" but no set date. In the meantime, she says, "I don't consider myself...