Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arok began life as just another gadget for an automated house, he has also become- in some peculiar way-a member of the family. Skora's wife Sharon was indifferent to her husband's creation at first, but now the couple cannot help being a bit anthropomorphic about what is their only child. They start the day by saying good morning to him. They keep a scrapbook of his press clippings. They worry about his delicate circuits the way parents worry about a nagging winter cough...
...light cigars and perform dozens of more complicated tasks that require feedback and self-correction. He (she?) will be semismart, with microprocessors and slow-scan television to guide his (her?) actions and, Skora hopes, the ability to take instructions direct from the inventors' brain waves. Sneb, the new creation will be called, for Ben spelled backward (with...
...most important concerns to the public servants was the proposed creation of a Senior Executive Service of 9,200 federal managers who could be transferred from one agency to another and who would be paid according to merit. Ruth Van Cleve, an Interior Department employee, expressed a common concern that such executives might be subjected to political pressure if they wanted to keep their jobs or get more money. Carter said SES membership would be voluntary; if its members were not happy in their posts, they could return to their old categories with full legal protection. Besides, the new program...
Washington has already helped prevent the creation of new Love Canals by enacting strict laws regulating the disposal of toxic substances. But, says Environmental Protection Administration Regional Director Eckhardt Beck, "we've been burying these things like ticking time bombs. They'll all leach out in 100 or 100,000 years." There are at least 30 sites like the Love Canal in New York alone. Nationally, according to EPA officials, there are more than a thousand...
...expensive is the creation of an all-new plane that Boeing is looking for partners to help do the work and share the cost. In no other industry are there such large international combines?or so much high-level politicking. When he visited Jimmy Carter last June, British Prime Minister James Callaghan discussed an Anglo-American aviation linkup. British Aerospace, a nationalized collection of airframe and weapon makers, is being courted by the European Airbus consortium and Boeing. As a start, Boeing wants British Aerospace to make the wings for its planned narrow-bodied, 150-passenger...