Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appeal to the commission on February 28, Sing said that Cardine Shillaber, librarian of the Graduate School of Design, discriminated because she is a woman...
...CONNECTION (PBS NOVA Series, March 9, 7:30 p.m. E.D.T.). It is no secret that ounces of plutonium-a byproduct of nuclear power reactors-could be used to produce a homemade atom bomb. To demonstrate that possibility NOVA commissioned a 20-year-old undergraduate chemistry student to try to design an A-bomb in five weeks, working alone and using only published information available to the general public. The result: a blueprint for a plutonium bomb with an estimated destructive capability of 100 to 1,000 tons of TNT. The student (portrayed by Actor John Holecek) describes the ease with...
...penitentiary produced more mental breakdowns, suicides, and deaths than repentance. Dickens, writing of the prisons he had seen in America, said, "Very few men are capable of estimating the immense amount of torture and agony which this dreadful punishment inflicts upon the sufferer." Yet the American prison system--a design to reform criminals by caging humans--has found a permanent place in American society, despite its protracted record of futility, dishonor, and inhumanity...
...Israeli state today. And I am not bothered on bit by the failure of the Palestinian groups to endorse binationalism. My hunch is, however, that in time and with the right kind of U.S. military and economic presence in the Middle East (a presence quite different from the tendentious design Prof. Walzer has in mind) the Palestinian leadership will more readily recognize the equity of a binationalist solution than the Israeli leadership. Martin Kilson
...Israel uses virtually all of its defense production for its own armed forces. Last year, though, the country earned at least $50 million in badly needed foreign currency by selling abroad some weapons of its own design: the Uzi submachine gun (more than 300,000 have been sold to 50 foreign customers, including the U.S. Secret Service, in the past two decades), the Arava, a short-takeoff and -landing warplane that is being bought by Mexico and Nicaragua and the Gabriel ship-to-ship missile, whose performance in the October War against Egypt's Russian-made patrol boats impressed...