In September 1821, a hurricane raised tides in New York Harbour by 13ft in just an hour and inundated the southern tip of Manhattan, including the areas that now include Wall Street and the new World Trade Centre memorial.
The reason: If a brown dwarf orbits close to its star, both objects raise tides, just as the moon raises tides on Earth.
Theoreticians had long predicted that Jupiter's massive gravity must raise tides in Io that knead its solid but still malleable rock to produce heat until at least part of the interior melts.
Each of the members of a close binary system raises tides on the other through gravitational interaction.
Yet it is increasingly clear rising-TiDe economics that with a careful eye on both raising the tide and lifting all boats, policies that most fit progressive values can be crafted to also be among the wisest pro- growth strategies.
"They are raising the tide for everyone else," Jorge Leon, the president of Leomics Associates, a diagnostics consulting firm, and the acting chief science officer at Orion Genomics, which is developing tests to detect cancer.
But the economy, the soul-sucking town planning, the chain store homogeneity and the potential for further nullification via high-speed rail lines are slowly sapping their souls, further raising the tide towards London. .
* "If the Internet is worth its salt, if it is to achieve the promise of its most euphoric celebrants and assuage the concerns of its most troubled skeptics, it has to be a force for raising the tide of democracy.
The neutron star's intense gravity raises fearsome tides on its partner's surface, tearing material off and pulling it into a disc around the neutron star.
More than moon, that was it, lovers parting and their tears swelling like an ocean till the girl — the woman, the female — had more power to raise the tides than the moon itself, or some such.
