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Carrying his analysis further, McCord discovered that the forces that acted on Triton to make it sink to its present orbit will continue to affect the larger moon at an accelerating rate. Tides raised on Neptune's surface by the pull of Triton's gravity exert a drag on the satellite that causes its orbit to decay. The tidal action on Neptune also creates friction that dissipates energy from the rotating Neptune-Triton system, further depressing Triton's orbit...
...antennas; its cultural shock troops of pop art, theater and cinema, the big beat, and Carnaby Street fashions are conquering the world. But underneath, nearly every observant Briton knows that his nation is in serious trouble. One critic has warned that the scepter'd isle seems ready to "sink giggling into the sea." Author Michael Shanks (The Stagnant Society) says that "the hardheaded (and often hardhearted) millowners and steel masters of the North have bred the little flirts of Chelsea and Kensington. It is gay, it is madly amusing, and it carries with it the smell of death...
...world, would be a hollow victory. Better perhaps would be a defeat and devaluation that might force the surgery of fundamental change. As the British know better than anyone else, somehow the way to a second Industrial Revolution must be found. The alternative is to sink slowly toward the status of Sweden-prosperous and placid perhaps, but hardly the England that...
...time since I have come upon a case that was so revolting as your case. I think you are so steeped in filth that as I read the report I cringed, and my flesh crept as I read the depth of iniquity to which you have allowed yourself to sink...
...crawled less than 100 yds. through the rough. He had to hit a No. 9 iron just to get the ball back on the fairway. A stray No. 3 wood left Arnie trapped just off the green; he had to explode to within 4 ft. of the rim and sink the putt to salvage a six-"the greatest six I ever made." Another birdie by Casper cut Palmer's lead to one stroke, and that stroke vanished when Arnie missed a 10-ft. putt on the 17th hole. Both golfers parred the 18th, and for the 24th time...