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...elements in the earth's interior slowly rises out of a relatively fluid layer of the earth's mantle called the asthenosphere. This lava surfaces at the mid-ocean ridges; hence, the higher water temperatures. As it flows away from the ridges, it hardens into a more rigid layer called the lithosphere. When new lava oozes out, it attaches itself to the older lithosphere and continues to move laterally from the mid-ocean ridges. Millions of years and thousands of miles later, the moving lithosphere plunges back into the earth, carrying its sediment with it and forming...
Icon connotes intense feeling compressed into rigid pose, bend of neck, outsize tapered hands, images both remote and repetitive. At this exhibition, all those expectations are fulfilled, and then overthrown, by the variety bursting forth from the conventions...
Trainer David R. Bishop 72 attributed Tarnas's victory to his rigid two-week training program...
Sexism is their target and battle cry -as racism is the blacks'. They regard 20th century America as a rigid, male-dominated society which, deliberately or more often unconsciously, perpetuates arrant inequities between men and women-in pay, kinds of jobs and, more subtly, self-expression. Women, they say, are constantly put down by the ads that ask "Does she ... or doesn't she?" or proclaim "You've come a long way, baby," because, of all things, she has supposedly got her own cigarette. The militants abhor Playboy as well as most women's magazines, which...
...honest, honorable man." One reason Johnson inspires confidence is that he combines high energy with a low-key manner. "He's open-minded, unflappable, and doesn't get hooked on a single idea," says Provost Jerome Wiesner. Johnson, for example, laid down no rigid contingency plans for the demonstrations. His guiding principle, he says, was to stay flexible and avoid painting the administration into an ideological corner...