Word: dependently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nurses in the Forest. Each submarine will remain submerged for 60 days at a time (George Washington will spend Christmas and New Year's at sea), and effectiveness will depend on precise maintenance. In order to launch missiles on target with accuracy, the ship must know its exact location. The complicated celestial-periscope system has 80,000 components and must be kept working to perfection. The periscope runs a constant double check on the Cadillac-sized SINS (ship's inertial navigation system), which tracks the sub's underwater course with pinpoint accuracy. The missiles are housed gently...
Though composed almost entirely of juniors and seniors, the seminars still encompass only a bare 15 per cent of the 1000 upperclassmen not receiving departmental tutorial. The decision whether or not to continue them next year will depend entirely on "how they work out," according to Dean Monro, who is largely responsible for the institution of the program...
Bringing any sort of big airliner down to a gentle-or safe-landing is a considerable stunt. But heavy, fast, steeply sinking jet planes have made the proposition even trickier. Their pilots cannot make a so-so approach and depend on last-minute power adjustments to keep them from overshooting or undershooting the runway. They must fly "by the numbers"-at precise letdown speeds, with their wing flaps set precisely right and their noses at the correct angle. Once a 150-ton jet is committed to land, it must follow a very narrow "slot of forgiveness," never deviating appreciably...
...regulate the supply of credit and influence interest rates. Kennedy thinks FRB should also deal in bonds, contends that the "bills only" policy has dropped short-term interest rates far more rapidly than the rates on long-term obligations, thus has given little help to builders and others who depend on long-term loans. (The FRB has been easing money steadily, and last fortnight began for the first time in more than two years to deal in bonds as well as bills.) Kennedy has not gone all-out for "easy money." He has said: "We are also aware that sharp...
Parsons noted that in modern society technical specialization deprives people of a considerable amount of freedom. "It creates dependency--we have to respect technical competence because important desirable effects depend on it." But in return for abandoning our freedom (for example, to treat our own diseases) we obtain some other freedoms, such as the freedom of action which comes from being healthier, he said...