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...appears that our present policy is so broad that it is like a wide search light, covering a lot of territory all the time. We don't need such a wide beam to help needy groups. If we could narrow the beam, we could still be helpful and save energy for other purposes...
...rear of Brezhnev's motorcade. West German sources dubbed it a "hot line on wheels," and said it was in direct contact with the communications center at Schloss Gymnich. In the garden of the estate, the Soviets set up a dish-shaped microwave transmitter. Its purpose: to beam messages to Moscow via the Soviet satellite "Horizon" that overflies Western Europe...
...everything in the books becomes an automatic hit. Chicago Mail Order Merchant Joseph Sugarman found few buyers for his $ 1,500 laser-beam mousetrap. But for products that do not sell out, there is always Grand Finale, a discount catalogue that specializes in marketing goods left over from other catalogues...
...three 1981 physics winners were cited for contributions to spectroscopy, a basic tool for studying atoms and molecules that dates back to the moment when Sir Isaac Newton passed a beam of sunlight through a prism and found that it was split into a rainbow of colors, a spectrum. Newton's successors discovered that any material heated to incandescence not only produces a spectrum but one so distinctive that it could be used like a fingerprint for identifying the substance. Astronomers soon found that the spectra of distant stars yielded all manner of information, including the star...
...spectra can also be created by directing a light beam or, say, X or gamma rays at an object. As the radiant energy strikes the atoms, their electrons hop from one orbit (or, in the language of quantum mechanics, one energy level) to another, absorbing or emitting light at specific frequencies. Such spectra yielded invaluable data about atomic and molecular structure...