Word: frictional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Searching for the ultimate social cause of any college admissions problem would be a little like trying to solve the matter of friction rather than grease a rusty wheel. The ultimate social question in the case of scholarship students from poor or minority group families is that of motivation, how to break out of the vicious circle set up by the fact that people draw their values and dreams from the atmosphere in which they grow up. Last year, Monro expressed the kind of bind that admissions officers often get into: "You break your back getting some tough little...
...future of Nigeria, Essien-Udom foresees a period of peaceful economic growth, without tribal strife. "There is rarely friction between the people of different tribes. It's the politicians who make the friction. But in Nigeria a party knows that it can't control the country by appealing to a particular tribe; it might get the support of a whole region, but it could never control the federal legislature. That is why our politicians are forced to rise above the tribes and think in terms of Nigeria...
...flag raising will not end all friction. Even at last week's ceremony, 30 Panamanian high school students waved signs and chanted: "Our aspirations have been mocked." Panama will certainly soon renew demands for a larger cut of canal revenues...
...ripped apart by an invisible tempest. CAT is most often met just above or just below the 30,000-35,000-ft. jet stream - and modern aircraft like best the levels near the great, racing jet stream. It has been agreed that CAT is caused by wind shear -the "friction" between adjacent air masses moving at different speeds. Last week Joseph J. George, chief meteorologist for Eastern Airlines, told how this knowledge might be put to work to predict CAT's claws so that airliners can be warned to skirt the peril...
After studying the meteorological records of bad CAT occurrences, George and his research team concluded that not one, but two different sorts of wind shear must be present to cause dangerous clear air turbulence. One is horizontal shear, caused by friction between air masses moving side by side at different speeds. The other is vertical shear, caused by the friction between two air masses, the one above the other, moving at different speeds...