Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...field less than 1/300th the strength of earth's or simply from the interaction between the solar wind and the Venusian ionosphere. The Russians at first reported that carbon dioxide comprised 98% of the Venusian atmosphere, but later revised the figure down to between 90% and 95%, closer to Mariner's reported 72% to 87%. And while Mariner could find no evidence of oxygen in the atmosphere, the Venus 4 capsule reported a trace (.4 of 1%) of oxygen and some water vapor...
...labors not to change a world or any corner of it, but to preserve something of his own integrity and decency. Lew Archer is a natural successor to Hammett's jaded Continental Op and Chandler's cynical knight-errant, Philip Marlowe, but his problems and solutions are far closer to us and the business of living...
...Young began serious negotiations with Pennsylvania Railroad executives toward a merger of their lines. Next month Perlman will turn 65, nearing the expiration of his contract with the Central because of age-and still waiting for the Penn Central merger to occur. But at least he is getting closer. Last week, in the latest of a series of legal moves involving the Penn Central, a three-judge federal court in New York told Perlman and Pennsy Chairman Stuart Saunders that they could go ahead and merge...
...Committee on Educational Policy moved closer to a decision on a four course pass-fail plan yesterday...
...summer Mrs. Bunting found what she thought would be one solution. She formed the Radcliffe Policy Committee. She did not consult students. She did not consult the Ad Hoc Committee set up after he hunger strike to find ways of bringing students and administration in closer touch with each other...