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Winter War
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Winter wren
Troglodytes troglodytes (wren, winter wren) See TROGLODYTIDAE.... Read more |
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Johnny Winter
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Edwin Booth
Edwin Booth 1833-93, one of the first great American actors, b. "Tudor Hall," near Bel Air, Md. After years of touring with his father, Junius Brutus Booth , he appeared in New York City (1857) and later toured (1861-63) England. On returning to New York he leased the Winter Garden Theatre,... Read more |
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nuclear winter
nuclear winter theory holding that the smoke and dust produced by a large nuclear war would result in a prolonged period of cold on the earth. The earliest version of the theory, which was put forward in the early 1980s in the so-called TTAPS report (named for last initials of its authors, Richard... Read more |
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Winter
winter the coldest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from December to February and in the southern hemisphere from June to August. In figurative and allusive usage, winter can stand for old age, or a time or state of affliction or distress. The word is recorded from Old English, and is... Read more |
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stoat
stoat , European name for the short-tailed weasel , Mustela erminea, also called ermine when in its white winter phase.... Read more |
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Juan Antonio Samaranch
Juan Antonio Samaranch 1920- Spanish athletic administrator In his two decades at the helm of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Juan Antonio Samaranch worked a miraculous transformation, turning what was a largely amateur enterprise into a billion-dollar showcase for the world's... Read more |
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icebreaker
icebreaker ship of special hull design and wide beam, with relatively flat bottom, designed to force its way through ice. When the icebreaker charges into the ice at full speed, its sharply inclined bow, meeting the edge of the ice, rises upon it, and the weight of the vessel causes the ice to... Read more |
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William Winter
William Winter 1836-1917, American drama critic, biographer, and poet, b. Gloucester, Mass., grad. Harvard Law School, 1857. A member of the literary bohemians who met in Pfaff's Cellar in New York City in the 1850s, he summed up his memories of them—Bayard Taylor, Walt Whitman, and... Read more |
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Nuclear winter; Japan's energy crisis.
...bracing for a bitter winter. Citizens of both areas...because of shortages of nuclear power. It will be another...after the March 11th nuclear disaster they had to...operator of the stricken nuclear power plant in Fukushima...nuclear ... |
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Market insight: Japanese jump. (Insight).(impact of Tokyo Electric Power...
...The nuclear maintenance scandal at Tokyo Electric Power...closure of nine its 17 nuclear power plants. These...total 17,308 MW of nuclear capacity, by next February...the problem, since the nuclear reactors are baseload...of markets through ... |
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Nuclear Winter: The Sun Peeks Through
...Times article on "nuclear winter." You remember nuclear winter, the notion that in a nuclear war dust and smoke would...overestimated its severity. Nuclear war would hurt, not kill...pass this on as a great ... |
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Nuclear winter: electricity generation.(the builders of nuclear reactors in...
...officials' enthusiasm for nuclear power. In August 1996, the...northern Japan, refused a nuclear power plant in their backyard...in the south. Successive scandals, such as the failure to report...difficulties make building nuclear reactors more lengthy-and... |
 "The Independent on Sunday (London, England)")
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Blair hands over secrets to start a new cold war ; 2014 WINTER OLYMPICS ++...
...decide where the 2014 Winter Games will be held...Singapore. Summer or winter, now everyone wants...s Turin Games doping scandal, which resulted in lifetime...adventurous, though close to nuclear-testing North. Winter...tradition, but 2006 ... |
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Is America's innovation at risk?
...s extremely difficult in times such as these to find much cheer. War, the technology sector's nuclear winter, the wave of corporate scandals, the stock market's continued decline and overall economic conditions are overwhelmingly negative... |
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Amid Gloom, a note of optimism. (Editorials).(CEO's job to keep company...
...s extremely difficult in times such as these to find much cheer. War, the technology sector's nuclear winter, the wave of corporate scandals, the stock market's continued decline and overall economic conditions are overwhelmingly negative... |
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Amid gloom, a note of optimism
...s extremely difficult in times such as these to find much cheer. War, the technology sector's nuclear winter, the wave of corporate scandals, the stock market's continued decline and overall economic conditions are overwhelmingly negative... |
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End of Japanese nuclear crisis boosts outlook for LNG imports.
...imports to the US this winter and through 2005 due...year crisis in Japan's nuclear power industry. Tokyo...operation 16 of the 17 nuclear reactors that were at the center of a scandal over falsified safety...management. Half of the nuclear ... |
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Baseball, as always, will survive; The steroids scandal is just the most...
...enhancing drugs. It has been a dark winter for the Twins, who, with a new...demands. This would seem to be a nuclear winter for baseball, locally and nationally...including the Twins), the steroid scandal that resulted in the Mitchell Report... |
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