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"We're not looking at the unemployment pool," says Ms. Grimmer, president of Centripetal Consulting Group, based in Dallas.
Long-Term Unemployment Ripples Through One Town Sara Murray 2012
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Centripetal faith always becomes centrifugal, and vice versa.
Texas Faith: Should government practice social justice? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010
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Centripetal forces are the onces that change the direction on the object, but anyhow, the point being the same, it works.
Cool Down A Scorching Car As Quickly As Possible | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Centripetal acceleration is much more important for circulations smaller than the mid-latitude cyclone.
Wind 2008
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Centripetal acceleration is also another force that can influence the direction of wind.
Wind 2008
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Centripetal acceleration creates a force directed at right angles to the flow of the wind and inwards towards the centers of rotation (e.g., low and high pressure centers).
Wind 2008
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Centripetal acceleration is the third force that can act on moving air.
Wind 2008
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Centripetal forces aren't gravitational forces... tho' yes, you certainly could introduce them to offset a gravitational force, but that's quite beside the point I was trying to address.
story idea, rubber science Holly 2007
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Centripetal has it, and down it falls into the sun!
The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006
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(Potential turns to kinetic energy) [Centripetal force dances around the radius while we examine the slope of the tangent] ([We sometimes get caught up with our words ...]) * Just listen to the spin doctors ...
Sunlight Through The Shadows Magazine Volume 2 Issue 1 (ANSI Edition) 1994
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