Word: affectivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched man's first artificial earth satellite, Sputnik I. The event was to affect the lives of most Americans, including hundreds of high school seniors throughout the country who were at that time contemplating attending Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass...
Small Worry. Beyond such military implications, the high-altitude tests have an additional purpose that is purely scientific: to find out how nuclear explosions above the atmosphere affect the Van Allen radiation belt. Some scientists have denounced this part of the experiment as a crime against man's own environment; they fear it will damage the belt for many years. But after earnest consultation with U.S. experts, the AEC is convinced that there is little to worry about. The lower and stronger of the two space explosions will release electrons that will be promptly trapped by the earth...
...obstacle to the free movement of particles in the radiation belt. Some of them will detour around it and continue on their way. Others, diverted downward, will be caught by the earth's atmosphere. But AEC scientists are certain that the bubble will be too small to affect more than a few percent of the belt's particles. Any major effect on the belt is expected to disappear within a few weeks...
...Christiana Securities, will have to pay $26 million in dividend taxes on the 6.7 million shares it will receive in the first distribution alone-and will then be obliged to turn around and get rid of the G.M. shares itself. Even in a normal market, such an unloading could affect the prices of both G.M. and Du Pont shares. Most market analysts agree that G.M., which expects a near-record sales year, should be able to withstand the shock. Even Du Pont, though its dividends will drop with the loss of its income from the G.M. shares, should bounce back...
...effect, tiny magnets, and they line up like compass needles parallel to the earth's magnetic field. When nudged out of alignment, they oscillate for a few seconds, the speed of their oscillation changing with the local strength of the earth's magnetism. Buried objects that affect the field show up plainly...