Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fuel mixtures-with a relatively high ratio of gasoline to oxygen -that produce unsatisfactory levels of pollutant gases. In addition, the rapid cooling of the gas temperature in the cylinder leaves unburned fuel, which is also spewed out as a pollutant. Honda's power plant, ponderously called the "compound vortex controlled combustion engine," or CVCC, scrubs these problems by being built to operate on a much thinner fuel mixture, using a lower ratio of gas to oxygen. Moreover, the cooling process in the cylinder is slowed to assist combustion of the fuel. All this reduces pollutant gases...
Under an agreement signed in Washington last week, the U.S. and the Soviet Union will begin construction of new embassy facilities in Washington and Moscow. The 550 Russians in Washington, now spread out in five buildings in the capital, will occupy a new compound that includes a twelve-story office tower and residences, to be built on a 12½-acre tract some time in 1975. The 300 Americans attached to the U.S. embassy in Moscow will get a similar complex on a ten-acre plot in the center of the Soviet city...
...morning after pill--a group of synthetic estrogens effective when taken within 72 hours of intercourse--is administered by University Health Services to between 35 and 45 Radcliffe students each year. The compound used by UHS--diethylstilphosterol--differs slightly from that investigated by Nader, diethylstilbesterol...
Under the old system, a fund's unspent earnings were plowed back into the general investment fund, so the fund did not grow as it would have with compound interest. A $1 gift given 200 years ago therefore earned no more interest than a $1 gift given recently...
...arrows and even to make sketches: houses, boats, things like that. Some of his creations he gave away to family and friends (there are five known specimens), but at least one item ended up in the wastebasket. That, apparently, is where someone found a sketch of the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port, Mass. Now that picture belongs to an Alexandria, Va., antique dealer named Holly Langhorne, who acquired it in exchange for some objets d'art. Next year, on the tenth anniversary of J.F.K.'s death, Ms. Langhorne says she will reproduce the drawing in an expensive limited...