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free fall
acceleration of free fall
acceleration of free fall (symbol g) The acceleration experienced by an object falling freely in a gravitational field, also known as the
acceleration due to gravity. Its mean value at the Earth's surface is 9.807 m/s
2; this varies slightly with latitude, because the Earth is not perfectly spherical. On any body the acceleration due to gravity can be found from the formula g = GM/R
2, where
M is the mass of the body,
R is its radius, and
G is the universal
gravitational constant.
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Soldiers Project Aims To Heal War's Mental Scars
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday; 11/14/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...military families this month. The Soldiers Project provides free counseling to not only service members returning from war but...the drinking — you know, the heavy drinking to try to fall asleep. And many of the things that they told me on how to react...
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Facebook's 'Farmville' Gets Users To Pay For Play
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday; 11/14/2009; ; 644 words
; ...They don't charge for the game. They give it to you for free and that's how they hook you. And then you find there's...game. SIMON: So Mr. Takahashi, how are your crops doing this fall? Mr. TAKAHASHI: I have not paid enough attention to them...
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GATES DISCUSSES REAGAN'S ROLE IN FALL OF BERLIN WALL
Transcript from: Regulatory Intelligence Data; 11/11/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...belief in liberty was key to the fall of the BerlinWall, Defense Secretary...commemorating the 20th anniversaryof the fall of the Wall. The Reagan Library...Soviet satellites had broken free as well, and again,largely...spiritual. "And the idea that free men and women of different culturesand...
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Now Free, Some Czechs Fear Complacency
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 11/11/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...NPR Morning Edition 11-11-2009 Now Free, Some Czechs Fear Complacency Host: STEVE...looking at Eastern Europe 20 years after the fall of communism. We're hearing from people...Well, I think that 20 years after the fall of communism, we realize there is a big...
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Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 11/10/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Last night world leaders...that we have the possibility to have a free market and to make our own private businesses...and club today in Warsaw and enjoys her free time i
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Transcript from: NPR Tell Me More; 9/24/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...world, as it were, safer for free trade, so that countries can...be sustained. It could still fall apart and we could have a double...to the world as leader of the free world, and in this case the free markets. So, that does mean...
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CYBERBULLYING AND ONLINE SAFETY FOR CHILDREN:ROBERT M. O`NEIL
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 9/30/2009; 700+ words
; ...in a host of free speech and free press cases, and I have been...despite their firm commitment to free speech, to support such legislation...sort may be punished only if it falls within one of the few clearly...case as a permissible limit on free speech. But in so
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New Detroit Mayor Cuts Jobs, Services To Address City Woes
Transcript from: NPR Tell Me More; 9/30/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...quarter of residents are unemployed. Home prices are in free fall. Just this week, he announced more tough measures to...Mayor BING: No, it isn't. Detroit's been in a free fall in terms of loss of population for the last 10 to 20 years...
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DEFINED-BENEFIT PENSION PLANS:NORMAN P. STEIN
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 10/1/2009; 700+ words
; ...participant benefit accruals if a single-employer plan`s funding falls below a specified trigger point, and whether some of the more...Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). Funding relief should not be a free lunch. 2. Short-term funding relief should not be extended...of the mandatory freeze on benefit accruals for ...
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Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 10/4/2009; ; 666 words
; ...wing ministers have flung at him — that his teeth will fall out and his legs would break. He adds that he would defend Staver...So anybody else who wants to be nominated on this list are free to do so. We would be happy to add you. HAGERTY: So just send...
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jazz
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...mainstream modern; Latin-jazz; jazz-rock; and avant-garde or free jazz. Blues The heart of jazz, the blues is a musical form...substitution of orchestration for improvisation and a rhythm that falls between the beats. The average big band had about 15 members...
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Isaac Beeckman
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Henry Wilson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...him to leave the Whigs in 1848, when he helped organize the Free Soil party. Elected (1855) to the U.S. Senate by the Know...completing his term. Wilson wrote the History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America (3 vol., 1872-77), the first...
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Lanford Wilson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...such one-act plays as So Long at the Fair (1963) and Home Free! (1964). Wilson graduated to off-Broadway with the production...hometown that span several decades. His later dramas include Angels Fall (1982), Burn This (1987), Redwood Curtain (1993), Book...
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Venetia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Verona, and Vicenza (named for their capitals). Venetia falls into two geographic zones, a mountainous and hilly area in...were ruled at first by their bishops, and later developed into free communes. Some towns (including Verona and Padua) grew powerful...
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