Word: chip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solid, banker's, balanced-budget sort of economics. (Save for Eugene Black, ex-President of the World Bank, and the economics Edward S. Mason, they also held in common no special knowledge of there subject, but that may have been accidental.) The President's purpose in choosing this blue-chip bunch was very shrewd. He was not nearly so interested in gaining unofficially thought-out views of economic and military programs as he was in providing himself with a club with which to clip Otto Passman, chairman of the Foreign Aid Appropriations subcommittee, behind the ear. The Committee, which would...
Inevitably, Mendoza has been drawn into the maelstrom of Venezuelan politics. Last December he helped found the Venezuelan Association of Independents (A.V.I.), a group of blue-chip businessmen and professionals, which intends to fight alongside the usual political organizations on behalf of sound fiscal policies and stepped-up development. The Association took planks of fiscal orthodoxy-a balanced budget, a free-as-possible economy, safeguards for private capital-and nailed them together into a platform designed to ease the basic plight of Venezuela : that "more than half of the population do not manage to satisfy the minimum needs...
...from St. Louis who hardly moves at all. He selects a likely spot, sits on the ground, and peers at the bare earth. For hours, as the sun's angle slowly changes, he watches for a tiny glitter. It may be only a bit of quartz or a chip from a broken pop bottle, but when he sees the glitter, he dares not move his head. He just stares rigidly so as not to lose the gleam, while his wife, who has been waiting for orders, follows his directions and picks up whatever he has spotted. This sedentary system...
...Redevelopment Authority purchase the land from the MTA and develop it through controlled private contractors. The report calls the sale of the Yards "the most important development of the Twentieth Century for Cambridge." It added that the Yards are "a land bank to be drawn upon only for blue chip investments...
...acids together, he joined his synthetic segment to the 104-acid remainder of natural ribonuclease. The reconstituted enzyme proved to have 70% of the activity of the natural substance. Apparently the seven amino acids, Nos. 14 to 20, that had been left out are like the chip collector on a lathe-useful but not essential...