Word: complement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stimulate the students to read, discuss, seek answers, design and perform experiments--in other words, to promote those highly individualistic exercises--usually away from the classroom--which for each student constitute the real educational experience. The core curriculum would also stimulate students to seek elective courses which would complement in depth the topics emphasized in the core curriculum...
...heart is becoming more and more accessible to surgical repair. Along with surgical ingenuity, the devices that have made much open-heart surgery feasible are the mechanical pumps that complement the blood-circulating functions of living tissue. Last week two such machines scored dramatic advances...
...unmusical tone-blending inherent in such a combination of instruments. But, Mr. Wright and the quartet produced a sound that successfully exploited the instrumentation as a vehicle for musical expression. Rather than stand out as an unwelcome intrusion into a string quartet, the clarinet functioned as a perfectly natural complement to the strings. The end result was a performance that left virtually nothing to be desired...
...plane such as the 747 is considered by some to be little more than an interim aircraft. Pan American clearly had this in mind when it specified that Boeing construct its 747 planes strong enough to be converted into cargo carriers. Actually, the 747 and the SST will likely complement each other. For passengers who want to fly a long distance in a supersonic hurry, the SST will be available at premium rates; but such will be the low operating costs of the 747 that a customer who is willing to take from 51 to six hours to fly from...
...fortunes to build on, and they used that base imaginatively. Indian companies were formerly privately owned hodgepodges put together, without economic rhyme or reason, over the years. The new boys have turned their enterprises into stock companies to gain additional capital and are carefully tailoring operations so that they complement one another...