Since more tightly orbiting planets transit more frequently, the telescope's early findings have been biased toward close-in worlds.
This year, in contrast, the trend seems to be in the opposite direction, toward intimate, close-in works that focus on families, couples and other small groups.
1937 Wendel Trial Nears End NEWARK — As the Paul Wendel kidnapping trial drew toward a close in Federal Court here today [June 11], Ellis H. Parker Sr .took the stand in his own defense to bluntly deny that he was in any way connected with the abduction.
It was there in a later quartet piece Mr. Mann and his companions presented, "Fragment No. 2" of 1999, where the first violin and the cello join in slow, serene music while the second violin and the viola want to be more songful, agitated or sportive; then, just when this latter duo has concurred with the calm, the first two strike off, driving the piece toward its close in a wonderful suspension.
Today's trend is toward a smaller tree in most fruit crops, particularly the apple and pear, and toward closer planting in hedgerow style, with carefully regulated fertilization and irrigation.
It gets fixed into the instrumental music, too, as the half-hour piece moves toward its pinpoint close in the upper treble.
Providing children and adults with opportunities to engage in manageable risk taking may be a stepping stone toward closing the gap in life conditions currently experienced by young people with disabilities.
A friend of Matsoukas's had recently joked about the "black-girl air grab," an incisive gesture made with your forearm upright as your fingers stretch toward the ceiling and then close in a fist.
The Senate, in a little-noticed but positive move, voted last Tuesday to give President Obama new leeway to move toward closing the prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Whatever you call it, the trend toward closing the loopholes in Switzerland and elsewhere translates into big money for the taxman.
For the next two decades, the United States mustered the will to continue the process of desegregation and moved toward closing racial gaps in wealth, income and education.
