Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make transistors and chips, scientists "dope" a semiconducting material ike silicon with impurities, creating regions that have either an excess or a deiciency of electrons-and thus are negatively (n zones) or positively (p zones) charged. If two n zones, say, are separated by a p zone, they act like an electronic switch, or transistor; a small voltage in the p zone controls fluctuations in the current flowing between the n zones. But every time an excess electron is released in the n zone to join the current flow, it leaves behind a positively charged spot. Because opposite charges attract...
Though the program sounds tough, parts of it are misleading. The federal hiring freeze probably will be presented as an act of spartan self-denial by the Administration. Actually, Carter has no choice: a little-noticed amendment to the Civil Service Reform Act requires him to reduce the number of Government employees, now 2.3 million, to 2.2 million by next October. More important, Administration officials have been making much of the fact that the Government awards some $80 billion in federal contracts each year, in theory giving it powerful leverage in forcing companies to comply with the guidelines. In fact...
...Airways reduced prices as much as 40%, pegging the London-Paris round trip at $92.50, vs. this summer's $154. Lufthansa, Alitalia and KLM next week will reduce fares 15% to 25% on some flights between Germany, Italy and The Netherlands. Air France is also getting into the act with a 40% reduction on some of its round trip Paris-London excursions. Other European carriers are expected to follow suit. Such news may well bring air travel within the budgets of more Europeans, many of whom have never flown...
...death. One had chosen a total allegiance to the old man, the other a marriage that enabled her to escape the family's terrible isolation. Hanley's suggestive style evokes by its very reticence the buried motives and subtle emotions that impose themselves on every human act. "I like to work out in my mind how far a word will go, how deep, or how high it can climb," meditates one of his characters. In Hanley's luminous novels, words travel about as far as they can go in the direction of music...
...loneliness and jealousy, he forces the audience to confront the heartbreak that lies beneath the play's cool surface. Yet Olivier-who also produced this show -understands that Pinter's small moments are no less crucial than the big ones. What other actor could turn the simple act of answering a telephone into a poignant intimation of mortality...