Word: containing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates an absence of thought." By McLuhan's analysis: "In the radio age, the parameters of the classroom can no longer contain the English language. The sophistication outside the classroom exceeds that of the classroom...
Soil Scoop. On Mars, the laboratory will be served by a mechanical arm, which will reach out and scoop soil up from the surface. One small sample of soil will be dropped into a vessel containing natural Martian atmosphere. Then water vapor and carbon dioxide tagged with radioactive carbon 14 will be added. After five days of incubation under simulated Martian sunlight, the atmosphere will be removed, and the soil heated to 1160° F., hot enough to vaporize organic material. If any organism in the soil has incorporated the radioactive carbon dioxide by a process similar to terrestrial photosynthesis...
...government seemed to be backing down after criticism of its demand that all journalists from abroad sign away their freedom to report events by pledging to "comply" with strait-jacket censorship guidelines. Reporters were instead handed an alternative pledge that acknowledged their receipt of the guidelines but did not contain any flat-out promise to obey them. A debate quickly followed over whether the distinction in phrasing marked a genuine retreat by Mrs. Gandhi's government from censorship or was a subtle way of allowing foreign journalists to sign, save face but still remain under rigid controls...
...alves will now try to assemble a new Cabinet. Although it will contain a handful of civilians, its power will be even more negligible than it was before. Moreover, the Cabinet members would have to serve as individuals and not as representatives of the political party to which they belong-thus conforming to the M.F.A.'s arrogant dictum that it and it alone speaks for the people and the revolution...
...principle American desire was to convince Latin American nations that Cuba was a sufficient menace to warrant ending all diplomatic relations. The United States wanted to isolate Cuba politically and economically, hopefully to destroy it, and at the very least to contain its revolutionary influence...