Date:  Wed, 13 Sep 1995 08:46:26 PDT

From:  tom creswell <creswell[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CROWN.NET>

Subject: Re: nuclear



I respectfully suggest that Dan Alford consult almost any English dictionary.

At random, I looked in the nearest at hand, the _Random House Unabridged

Dictionary_. S.v. "gravitation, I find this: " 3. a movement or tendency toward

something or someone: [example] the gravitation of people toward the sub-

urbs. At the end of the entry, the derived form _gravitational_ is given.



I have found in the past that reading too much of the work of Benjamin Lee Whorf

can often result in a gravitational pull toward muddlement.



Hope this clears up your puzzlement, Dan.



Tom Creswell