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erosion

noun as in deterioration; wearing away

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The images submitted will be added to an interactive map to help researchers document flood and erosion risks in coastal areas.

For the purposes of the project, the best photos are taken in areas susceptible to flooding and erosion, and where water levels can be gauged against identifiable landmarks such as cliffs, rocks, roads, buildings, bridge supports, sea walls, staircases and piers.

In the name of war, this century has seen an astonishing erosion of constraints on that very power, as Yale law professor Harold Hongju Koh details in his illuminating new book, "The National Security Constitution in the Twenty-First Century."

From Salon

“Under Trump, higher education in the US will face a difficult future, featuring an aggressive and intrusive federal government, erosion in funding with no alternatives, a cavalcade of political litmus tests and a decline in the US’s science and technology capability,” wrote John Aubrey Douglass, a senior research fellow and research professor of public policy and higher education at the UC Berkeley Center for Studies in Higher Education.

But broadly speaking, any elevation of Kennedy to executive power—even hypothetical—signals the further erosion of any kind of facts-based decisionmaking, and points to Trump’s embrace not just of falsehoods that benefit him politically but nonsense in general.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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