Word: arrays
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...businessmen, and more important of high Nixon Administration officials, the programs have swallowed huge amounts of taxpayers' money but failed to put enough unemployed into productive jobs. The programs are thus prime targets for budget cutting. The President, in a letter to Congress last spring, charged that the "array of patchwork programs...is not delivering the jobs, the training and the other manpower services that this nation needs." Such opinions will be reinforced by the recent drop in unemployment, which may make training seem less urgent. The Government reported last week that the jobless rate in November fell...
...chiefs of big branch banks counter that in providing competition in small towns they not only improve the efficiency of community banks but also offer residents a wider array of services, like computerized checking and often cheaper loan rates. Small banks can also be autocratic monopolies. James M. Kemper Jr., chairman of Commerce Bancshares Inc. of Kansas City, Mo., recalls: "As we moved into areas dominated by one bank, we found that in two towns the independents refused to offer even savings-account services. Now the townsfolk have the opportunity to earn interest on their savings." The most serious argument...
...Texas, have gained strong positions in their areas, largely through shrewd acquisitions by their holding companies of independent banks and mortgage companies. Unlike the $20 billion giants, the medium-sized regional banks are small enough to avoid antitrust litigation, yet big enough to provide sound management and a wide array of services for people who want to borrow, save or invest money...
...Apollo 17, four wholly new instruments have been included in the ALSEP package: a mass spectrometer to measure the moon's tenuous atmosphere; a detector that will let earthbound scientists monitor the bombardment of cosmic dust particles and micrometeorites on the moon's surface; an array of four listening devices-geo-phones-that can pick up shock waves from explosive charges that will be detonated after the astronauts leave and should tell much about the substructure of the landing site; an extremely sensitive gravimeter that is designed to pick up minuscule variations in lunar surface gravity...
RISING starkly from the dusty fields of California's San Joaquin Valley are 100 huge metal cylinders that look like an array of petrochemical tanks. Alongside them are rows of mostly windowless industrial buildings that sprawl over an area as large as six city blocks. This symbol of technological power is not a pulsing refinery; it is the E. & J. Gallo Winery of Modesto, Calif. Inside the cylinders, millions of gallons of California Burgundy, Chablis and rosé age. Inside the buildings, squads of chemists pore over their latest oenological formulations, while viniculturists experiment with ways to improve soil...