Word: absorbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Propulsion Laboratory. The first order was received and obeyed: large, flat solar panels (see diagram) sprang into position. In a series of maneuvers, Mariner's ten tiny nitrogen jets swiveled the spacecraft until its long axis pointed at the sun. So positioned, the solar panels could absorb the sun's energy, power the spacecraft's electrical system without draining its silver-zinc battery...
...Laboratories. The principle of atoms being raised to excited states by absorption of radiation, and subsequently being stimulated by radiation to give out their stored energy, has been known in science for a very long time. The maser consists of a synthetic ruby crystal containing chromium ions which can absorb and store light in excited states of the chromium atoms. After a time the stored energy is emitted in a powerful short flash, which in some cases has reached the, equivalent of 1,000 kilowatts in intensity. Already this has been used to illuminate an area of two-miles diameter...
This week the U.S. promises to make public the details of its tin disposal program. Washington officials contend that the market will be able to absorb the sales from the stockpile because world production has fallen an average of 26,000 tons short of demand in each of the last four years-largely because of political crises in the Congo and Indonesia. The man who will direct the U.S.'s sales, General Services Administration Executive John Croston, has tried to calm fears of U.S. dumping by saying that the sales would be spaced out over five years, with just...
...executive suite "seldom sees anyone except those who show him deference, and almost never those who talk back . . . Lacking time to read the newspapers thoroughly, he comes to rely upon digests prepared for him by his public relations staff, and unconsciously he is likely to absorb their opinions...
...heat of the Commonwealth controversy, few Britons recall that its sacrosanct trade ties started as a marriage of convenience-and have lately proved increasingly inconvenient. Since the 1880s, British politicians have dreamed of the Empire as a competition-proof common market that would forever absorb British manufactured goods and supply cheap raw materials in exchange. But it never worked that way. In 1962, as Richard Cobden protested in the early 19th century, the Commonwealth is, in purely economic terms, "but a gorgeous and ponderous appendage to swell our ostensible grandeur without improving our balance of trade...