Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...July 10, the sons of Robert Kennedy and Eunice Shriver allegedly joined several other boys at a small pot party in a garage near the Kennedy family compound in Hyannisport. Those present included an undercover agent, reportedly a young state trooper posing as a local cab driver named "Andy." He was only doing his job; the drug problem in Cape Cod's Barnstable County has reached the point where the court hears three or more such cases a day. Based on Andy's evidence, the Kennedy boys faced a bleak possibility: a maximum five years' confinement in the state house...
...compound the problem, equipment manufacturers were held up by strikes and shortages of skilled labor. When the Federal Power Commission surveyed 85 large steam-generating units installed in 1966-68, it found that 55 had been delayed for one reason or another. As a result, lead time for getting a new fossil-fuel plant on the line has been lengthened from four to six years. Nuclear plants are now expected to take seven rather than five years...
Anna Dubček suffered other torments. Her three children were kept in Prague -presumably as hostages-throughout their parents' assignment to Ankara. When Dubček was summoned home and fired, his wife was confined to the dreary Czechoslovak embassy compound. Prevented from leaving the embassy, Anna was unable to attend a wedding reception for the Chilean ambassador's daughter. Nonetheless, she sent a wedding gift, carefully enclosing both her and her husband's calling cards. A friend later telephoned to tell her that the gift had arrived without either one; another card had been substituted...
Holder Molecules. To confirm his hypothesis, Koshland and two young Berkeley colleagues-Dan R. Storm and Kenneth Neet-devised an experiment of classical simplicity. It involved the common chemicals ethyl alcohol and acetic acid, which, in the presence of a catalyst, quickly combine to form an aromatic compound called ethyl acetate (without a catalyst, the reaction occurs very slowly). Instead of using standard catalysts, however, the scientists chemically locked both molecules into various synthetic ring-shaped, larger molecules called "holders," which are in effect chemical vises. After many attempts, they hit upon a holder that gripped the ethyl alcohol...
Soon after the commercial's release in March, viewers in all 50 states were watching it to pick out famous faces. But then one of the 100 decided to run for Governor of New York. To compound the problem, the camera had paused momentarily on former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg. Because of the FCC's equal time provisions, the commercial has been playing lately in only 49 states. New Yorkers will get to see it again, however. A new version, made at a cost of $4,000 and minus Goldberg, will be back on their tubes this...