Word: area
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That design, when superimposed on a map of U.S. missile sites, was found to coincide with the distribution of ICBM silos. "There isn't any question," Nixon said, "that it is a multiple weapon, and its footprints indicate that it just happens to fall in somewhat the precise area in which our Minuteman silos are located...
Narrow Range. The most glowing testimonial to amantadine's value came, ironically, from the U.S.S.R.'s most famous vaccine developer, Dr. Anatoli A. Smorodintsev. The drug was given, he reported, in reduced doses of 100 mg. daily to 10,000 Russians in Leningrad, a flu epidemic area. Half of them did not develop flu at all; most of those who did had cases that were milder than average. According to Smorodintsev, the side effects were negligible-though Soviet researchers have been known to soft-pedal side effects before...
...Audience. To the directors of the Philharmonic, Boulez's kind of belligerence is obviously a risk to be seriously weighed. So is his lack of experience in the bread-and-butter area of any symphony orchestra's life: the 19th century repertory. By and large he made his conducting reputation on no more than half a dozen works-notably Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, to which he brings astonishing rhythmic control and a primitive passion for the work's savage shafts of power. He does not much care for Brahms, Tchaikovsky, or Bruckner...
...hitting the 'chirp' button, but visibility was so bad that I couldn't follow the little damselfish." Frustrated, he told his sound man to try a different set of signals. No sooner did the sound projector begin broadcasting a low-frequency tone than "bang, the whole area was filled with sharks." A chance turn of the dials had paid off with completely unexpected information...
...following figures represent the yearly gross income that a family of four must earn in each area to get by on a "moderate" standard of living. The Labor Department figures, the latest available, are for the spring of 1967-and since then, consumer prices have jumped almost...