Word: ac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Caramanlis, however, does not have a completely free hand. The Greek military still looms as a potent ar biter of the government's ac tions, particularly in the sensitive negotiations over Cyprus. Many military men remain strongly committed to eventual enosis, and the officers may be tempted to oust the new Premier if he concedes too much to Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots...
...start, they are trying to make a rectifier, a simple device for changing the periodically reversing flow of electrons in alternating current (AC) into the one-way flow of direct current (DC). Like the cathode in ordinary vacuum tubes, one end of the molecular rectifier would act as a donor of electrons because it would be made out of a molecule that had a lower binding energy. The other end, carrying a higher binding energy, would serve as an anode, or electron acceptor. Thus, if an external alternating voltage were applied, the large molecule would act as a rectifier...
Should auld ac-quain-tance...
...worst news concerns crime. Ac cording to FBI statistics, more than half the crimes of burglary, auto theft and larceny over $50 are not reported. The number of people afraid to walk alone at night increased from 34% in 1965 to 42% in 1972. Forcible rape increased from 18.6 per 100,000 women...
...best that Europe can hope for in 1974 is "stagflation"-an uncomfortable mixture of stagnating output ac companied by continued inflation. Living costs are likely to rise by 10% or more in many countries. Recession -that is, an actual decline in output - is a possibility, though far from a certainty...