Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee. Seidman said if they were not invited, the panel should hear from South African exiles. "It's upsetting to me that there's no one on the committee who knows anything about South Africa or about the region. They're going to have to learn a lot of basic things...
Wood stressed that a more open Board would not be contrary to the basic principles under which it was created. "There is no real reason to be so closed as to be really out of touch," he said. "There is nothing that precludes us from taking votes, nothing that says that the minutes of the meeting can't be public...
...fact is that the proportion of minority students that have sought Ph.D. degrees is small and has declined in the last seven to 10 years," Bok said. "We can't make substantial progress until these basic problems have been addressed...
Such bouts of good feeling have been seen before -- and dashed before. Alone, they have little more significance than smiles at a summit, and they can be just as deceptive and dangerous. But to the extent that the new attitudes reflect real reforms in Soviet society that shrink the basic differences between the two nations, they could mark a historic turning point in the cold war. That would be far more important than anything Reagan and Gorbachev might conjure up at a crowded conference table, or inside a cozy dacha...
...depth finders operate on the same basic principle. A control box transmits an electronic pulse to a ceramic crystal called a transducer that is mounted to the boat's transom or hull. The transducer converts the pulse into a high-frequency sound wave, or "ping," which it beams downward. When the ping strikes the bottom, or hits a fish, it bounces back up. These echoes are picked up by the transducer and sent to the control unit for processing. Since sound travels through water at a known rate, depth is readily calculated from the time elapsed between transmission and reception...