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...most dense part of the belt, which consists mostly of tiny particles, rather than the chunky rocks that peril science-fiction space travelers. None of the impacts were made by fragments larger than a grain of sand, and none did any detectable damage to the thinly shielded $50 million craft. By carefully planning Pioneer's trajectory, controllers kept the ship at least 4,000,000 miles from those larger (at least seven miles in diameter) and rarer asteroids that can be seen by telescope on earth. Said NASA's newly confident Dr. William Kinard: "We're firmly...
...mile Also, community zoning and building codes round the country vary wildly, making genuine mass production for a nationwide market all but impossible. In an effort to overcome this problem, 26 states have agreed to uniform codes: yet to protect the highly paid jobs of craft union members, many codes are still fussy in demanding a certain gauge of wire for electric circuits a particular type of weld for pipes and specific widths for studs. The specifications almost force the use of hand labor on the building site...
...large insists upon a modicum of quality. Bizarre vaudevillians like Jethro Tull, the manic-impressive group for which Anderson is lead singer and flutist, are still artisans right down to their self-mocking codpieces and plaid jerkins. Singer-Composer King, 29, spins out her multitextured ballads with craft and sensitivity and raises her piano playing to something more than mere accompaniment. Nilsson, 31, blithe and winsome with his pen as well as his voice, first projected himself as a sort of sad-clown chronicler of Middle America (Nobody Cares About the Railroads Anymore, Mr. Tin ker), now is a zany...
...been "in country" for about a week when I saw my first American dead. It was a bright, sunny afternoon on a branch of the muddy Mekong. I was on one of the Navy's small converted landing craft used as staging points in the watery interior. Suddenly a sailor casually noted, "There's a floater off the stern. Hell, where's the boat hook...
...major precedent: it will be given even to workers who never sought promotions because they believed that company policy automatically banned them. The one-time payment will be made under various plans. For example, $7.5 million of the restitution money will be given to 3,000 women now in craft jobs like phone installers and cable splicers because initially they received less pay than men doing identical work...