Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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¶ AUTO SAFETY. Reduction of "carnage on our highways," through a $700 million, six-year program to develop mandatory standards of "safety performance" for highway vehicles. Said an Administration aide: "We contemplate licensing, inspection and engineering, research and development, "traffic control and accident prevention."
Primary Accident. A lonely tinkerer in the style of the Edison era, Adams has supported his yen for inventing by toiling at a lengthy catalogue of jobs-cowboy, barber, auto mechanic, house painter, merchant seaman, research director for a vacuum cleaner company. His pre-war kitchen triumph was a primary...
Expert Accident. In wartime 1942, Adams decided that his revolutionary battery had all sorts of potential military uses. When he offered it to the Army, though, every available expert rejected his idea as unvoltaic and unworkable. Indeed, no one yet knows exactly why the Adams battery works. But without ever...
Some futurists are less sanguine; they worry not only about the social problem of who would supervise this man-made evolution, but also about unforeseen side effects, such as genetic mutations. Medical optimism is also limited by the notion that there may be an increase of accidents and the general...
It was Baeza's second accident in a week: three days before, he had been lucky to escape with a bruised ankle when a horse jammed his leg against the starting gate. That first mishap kept him out of action for only half a day; after the second, doctors...