Word: assayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...investment, gold has other severe drawbacks. It is costly to store, insure and assay, and it yields no interest. Nonetheless, dealers are gearing up for a big business with private American investors when ownership becomes legal. Americans already are avidly and legally buying gold coins, and some stores are selling as jewelry ⅛oz. bar-shaped pendants ($45 at Cartier's in Manhattan or twice the value of the gold itself). Come Jan. 1, Americans will also be offered gold-warehouse receipts and shares in mutual funds that will buy bullion. They may even get a chance...
...hangars at Andrews Air Force Base to give them a fresh coat of turtle wax and burnish them for the trip this week to the Soviet Union, which will be bigger, more profound and yield more headlines that the workers in the White House will clip, measure and assay...
...somewhat ingenuous section on the American missionary impulse and what he calls "Samaritan diplomacy," though he does allude to the cultural imperialism that has often accompanied missionaries. He limits his discussion of America's inexorable technology to vignettes about the atomic bomb and the space race. His assay of the century's "democratic experience" does not include any mention of the fate of the American Indian. He also ignores the labor movement entirely...
...things, that the Parliament provide for a question period, so that Common Market Commissioners might be grilled, and set up a committee to seek advice from national parliaments, universities and other sources on how to reform itself. The standing committees, he suggested, should stop scrutinizing legislative fine print and assay instead the long-term policies of the Commission and Council of Ministers. Professing himself "astonished at the latent powers" already available. Kirk proposed that Parliament use its limited authority to question the EEC budget and set up a permanent commission to examine the accounts of all Common Market institutions...
...Florida sky. On the moon there are flags from the earth, and on earth there are pieces of the moon. The Apollos have passed from the evening news into an assured place in history. They have opened a chestful of scientific riches that researchers will need years to assay fully. They have not solved the problems of the earth, nor were they meant to. But, as Bradbury suggests, they may have provoked man into asking anew some of the old questions about the heavens-and himself...