Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Allied with Romney in the battle to get the Con-Con constitution adopted was an array of civic and professional organizations, as well as the Republican Party. The most important opponents were the Democratic Party and the United Auto Workers. What the opponents objected to most strenuously was the proposed constitution's provisions on legislative reapportionment. At the convention. Democrats had argued for legislative representation based solely upon population, but Con-Con adopted instead a complex provision giving 80% weight to population and 20% to "land area." The area factor would give extra representation to the state...
Four years later, Greene went to Rome again, and "became dissatisfied with everything I was doing. To turn away from anything that was a scene rather than a presence became important." How far Greene has turned away is chronicled in his first major retrospective, a striking array of 40 paintings and 20 drawings presently on view at Washington's Corcoran Gallery and due to tour the U.S. before reaching Manhattan's Staempfli Gallery a year from...
...array of 150 admirals and generals, some summoned from units theoretically under U.S. control, assembled in Seoul and vowed support of Park and military rule...
...which must always know its precise location, are banks of digital computers. They are linked to the ship's inertial navigation system (SINS). The three SINS, which check each other, dangle from the stable ceiling platform of the Ethan Allen's navigation center. They contain a secret array of spinning gyroscopes and accelerometers, can measure the most minute variation in the ship's movement due to drift. A computer called NAVDAC (for navigation data assimilation computer) records the position changes detected by SINS...
Having quit the Labor Cabinet in 1951, along with Firebrand Aneurin Bevan, Wilson has inherited much of Bevan's leftwing support. But in the Cabinet his main administrative achievement was the dismantling of a vast array of controls on Britain's postwar economy. He has always been more pragmatic than doctrinaire-or opportunistic, his enemies say. In a Commons speech last week he declared, "What I am saying may or may not be ideological, but it will get the export orders." With the left safely on his side, Wilson is shrewd enough to know that, as leader...