The Patriot Act increases the government's power to spy in four areas. 1  1. Expanded access to personal records held by third parties. 2  2. More secret searches. 3  3. Expansion of the intelligence exception in wiretap law. 4  4. Expansion of the pen register exception in wiretap law.
Nimbus is a Latin word meaning cloud or rain storm. Nimbo is a prefix and nimbus is a suffix. An example would be: Nimbostratus, a precipitating cloud.
Snow falls from nimbostratus clouds. Nimbostratus clouds are grey, thick, low-level cpouds that cover the entire sky. These kinds of clouds are associated with prolonged weather, mainly rain or snow. Fun fact : The root word for nimbus, 'nimbo', is Latin for rain or precipitation and the root word for stratus, 'strato', is Latin for layer.