Word: designate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...single Arab delegation at Geneva and insisted that under no circumstances could known members of the Palestine Liberation Organization be present there, even as members of a Jordanian delegation. Explained Begin to a Washington press conference: "The P.L.O. cannot participate. To put it bluntly and simply, their design is to destroy our country and our people...
Where Soviet computer technology lags most is in speed. Their Ryad-model computers, the most advanced machines in general use in the Soviet Union, are close copies of the IBM 360 series, first introduced in the U.S. in 1964. The top design in the Ryad line, which has not yet gone into use, performs only 1.5 million operations per second, compared with up to 12 million for the Cyber 76. Even the latest Soviet computers are ten to twenty times slower than the present generation of U.S. computers...
Atop a bluff ten miles outside Sacramento sits California's opulent new Governor's mansion. When former Governor Ronald Reagan called for its construction a decade ago, he admonished his bureaucracy to design a home that symbolized the bustle and promise of America's fastest-growing state. Completed three years ago, the residence does indeed capture California's quicksilver suburbanty. It has expansive verandas, teakwood floors, eight bathrooms and a caretaker assigned to collect golf balls sliced off the fairway of a nearby country club...
...physics; probably of heart disease; in the U.S.S.R. Budker, who joined the Soviet Atomic Energy Institute in 1946, did early work on graphite-moderated uranium reactors and contributed to the development of the Soviet hydrogen bomb. As director of the Siberian Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, he helped design a "colliding beam" accelerator-now used in high-energy physics research-in which a beam of electrons collides with a beam of positrons...
...fourth will be completed in 1979-at a total cost of $4 billion. Three additional production models now under construction will probably be scrapped. The test models will be flown for several years, primarily to refine ultrasophisticated gear that jams enemy radar. This will make it easier to design manned bombers of the future-if any are built-that can penetrate enemy air defenses. Also, continuing the research will leave open Carter's option to change his mind in the event that technological breakthroughs or international political developments make the B-1 more attractive...