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Word: decipherer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES (ECM): Although the electronic "bubbles" that surrounded U.S. bombers and fighter-bombers over North Viet Nam gave them a high degree of protection against missiles and antiaircraft fire, the Soviets may learn to pierce the bubbles. The U.S. answer: new ECM techniques that can fool enemy radar into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Electronic Arsenal | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

Those experiments had confirmed the existence of a transfer factor, a substance that apparently enabled the scientists to transfer immunity against foreign substances from one animal to another. The research had far-reaching implications for immunology and cancer research. In fact, the early results were so significant that one paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Model Student | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

To help prepare Nixon's response, White House Counsel J. Fred Buzhardt spent four weeks locating the tapes in question on six-hour reels stored in the Executive Office Building, isolating segments that corresponded to the subpoenaed conversations and transcribing them by hand. The tapes were reportedly sometimes almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: The President Prepares His Answer | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

San Francisco Educator Edward Kloster estimates that more than half the students in his institution need help with their reading. He is particularly concerned about the 250 or 300 who cannot even decipher words. Kloster is not, as one might suppose, a teacher in an elementary school. He is chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fogbound Schools | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

Step for Reform. By law, street-name partnerships and the names of their parent institutions are registered with the clerks of the counties in which the nominees are based. Still it is difficult for the shareholders to penetrate the web of nominees' names to find who really controls his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Superbankers in Control | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

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