Word: channelize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...center of the storm was William Egan Colby, 54, the CIA's director for the past year. Shrewd and capable, Colby has sought from the day he took office as director to channel more of the CIA's efforts into the gathering, evaluation and analysis of information and less into covert actions?the "operational" side of the intelligence business. Says he: "The CIA's cloak-and-dagger days have ended...
...pulled out of service on Oct. 25, the end was hastened when the crew went on strike two weeks ago as the liner approached Le Havre on its regular crossing from New York. Rebellious sailors forced the France's captain, Christian Pettre, to drop anchor in the approach channel to Le Havre, blocking the harbor's entrance to larger oil tankers. The crew then announced that they would occupy the ship until the government guaranteed jobs for the 3,000 or so employees who would be affected by the liner's demise. After a last nostalgic night...
...developers call it, is anchored by cable over a fixed spot on the ground. In a test now under way in the Bahamas, an aerostat floating 11,500 ft. over Grand Bahama Island is picking up TV signals from Miami 110 miles away and rebroadcasting them on a local channel-in effect, trebling the range of the Florida stations without resorting to a satellite, a boost in signal power, costly relay towers or cables...
Brooklynese is not dead. Along with the 50 phone call and the 150 bus fare it is still alive and well in New Orleans, spoken by people of all classes and known as Irish Channel speech. Anyone willing to live in the berling heat of this town even for thoity minutes or sample ersters berled in erl will hear enough Brooklynese to last him for quite a while...
...incited a wholesale student and faculty rebellion and prompted the rebels to establish a liberal-oriented Seminary in Exile (Seminex) that almost stripped the official seminary of teachers and students. Evangelical Lutherans in Mission, founded a year ago, has become the organizational voice of the dissidents and the funding channel for the breakaway seminary...