argument of perihelion
argument of perihelion (symbol ω) An angle that defines the direction of the major axis of an orbit around the Sun. It is the angle between the ascending node and the perihelion of an orbit, measured in the plane of the orbit and in the direction of orbital motion. See also
Elements, Orbital.
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Antarctica
Map from: Maps.com Digital Earth Maps; 1/1/1999; 481 words
; ...Soviet Union) Edgeworth David (Australia) Oasis Ii (Soviet Union) Commonwealth Bay (Australia) Dovers (Australia) Law (Australia) Druzhnaya-4 (Soviet Union) Mizuho (Japan) Wasa (Sweden) Maitri (India) Sarie Marais (South Africa...
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Couple charged in business scam
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 1/13/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...history with the California State License Board and with the California legal system for violations of contractor's license law, including receiving excessive down payments," the license board's news release said. Because of many contractor's license...
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Powering Back Up; Residents Shiver as Pepco Struggles
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/16/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...bury the 69,000-volt lines, and he said even power companies in states farther north do not do that. Since the 1960s, by law, power lines serving new individual subdivisions must be placed underground, and Pepco does so, he said. The task of piecing...
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Bush plan fails to inspire coalition troop increases
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 1/13/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Japan has not "re-upped" yet, though news reports Friday said the Japanese government was considering extending a special law that authorizes the deployment of its 600-member humanitarian mission for another year. Japan's military involvement has...
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Controversial Group Has Strong Ties to Both Parties in South
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/13/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and Rep. Robert L. Barr (R-Ga.) -- who have brought the group its recent notoriety. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has attacked Barr, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, for speaking before the organization...
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U.S. war on drugs doing more harm than good in Colombia
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 1/13/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...exposing its country to ferocious reprisals. A recent example is former Mexican President Vicente Fox's attempt to sign into law a bill passed by Congress legalizing tiny amounts of certain drugs for personal consumption. When the seven plagues of Egypt...
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Ex-officer gets prison for abuse of 3 girls
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 1/13/2007; ; 637 words
; ...Judge David Mortensen referenced several reports prepared by law enforcement and medical personnel before making his ruling...people knew about the abuse for months before reporting it to law enforcement. Their plea is that anyone who knows about abuse...
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Jordan District to hand over meeting records
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 1/13/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...the school board was merely following the advice of its legal counsel as it navigated through open meetings and open records laws. Page said the school board may have been concerned about the Utah Attorney General's intentions. "The Open Meetings Act...
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TODAY IN CONGRESS
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/10/1999; 700+ words
; ...International Relations -- 2 p.m. Current situation in Kosovo. 2172 RHOB. Judiciary -- 10 a.m. Commercial & administrative law subc. Oversight hearing. Reauth. of Independent Counsel Act. 2141 RHOB. Judiciary -- 10 a.m. Crime subc. Oversight...
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Silence on Iraq war is far from endorsement
Newspaper article from: The Topeka Capital-Journal; 1/13/2007; 700+ words
; ...supported by today's silent majority represented by my conservative, Christian sister. Dr. Bill Roy is a retired physician and former member of Congress. He has a law degree and lives in Topeka. He may be reached at wirroy@aol.com.
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Yaoundé
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...eacute; is the site of the Univ. of Yaoundé, which includes schools of teaching and agriculture. The city has many other educational and research institutes, including a school of administration and law and a school of journalism.
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Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...agriculture, and electrification. It also adopted (2000) Islamic law (sharia). Yar'Adua, who had not previously been prominent in...appeared, at least initially, to be marked by a greater respect for the law than his predecessor's.
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Young's modulus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...or dynes per square centimeter) the ratio of stress to strain for a wire or bar of a given substance. According to Hooke's law the strain is proportional to stress, and therefore the ratio of the two is a constant that is commonly used to indicate the...
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José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...2004-), b. Valladolid. A Socialist and a lawyer, he taught law at the Univ. of Léon from 1982 to 1986, when he...In office, Zapatero oversaw the enactment of liberal social laws, including the legalization of homosexual marriage, and the...
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zoning
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the standard it set has been followed by other cities. By this law (often amended since 1916) New York City is divided into use districts...L. Sieman, The Zoning Game Revisited (1985); A. J. King, Law and Land Use in Chicago (1986).
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