Word: chart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about Lon Nol?" I ventured. In reply, he drew on his slate twelve horizontal bars of equal length and twelve vertical bars, some short and some long. The long vertical bars represented good months and years, the short ones bad months and years. This was Lon Nol's chart, he explained. The marshal had visited him many times, and after the recent bombing of the palace compound, Lon Nol had rushed an aide to the astrologer for a fresh reading...
...recording gauges linked to two large cylinders set parallel in a floor; a car is moved onto the cylinders, and its drive wheels move them during the test) and theoretically piloted over a typical 7.5-mile suburban and urban route by expert drivers who followed a computer-prepared strip chart at an average speed of 35 m.p.h...
...month-old School of Education program designed to chart the social, emotional, physical and mental development of infants born in the last 10 months of 1973 has enrolled between 35 and 40 families...
...chart this new direction. President Nixon has turned to a tweedy, pipe-smoking economist and military strategist, James R. Schlesinger, 44, who in February took over as director of the CIA. Aides quote Schlesinger as saying that "the entire intelligence community can produce a better product with a lower level of resources." In short, the nation's spy network should generate better intelligence for less money...
...time to deal with expectations. We were occupied not with wondering what the state would look like 25 years from now, but whether we would be alive 24 hours from now. The obsession with survival put aside any attempt to chart a future...