Word: directing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...service." The Trustees maintain that, since the railroad cannot profitably continue to provide passenger service, it should be relieved of its legal obligation to do so. The states should then determine which parts of the operation are in the public interest and support those parts by some form of direct subsidy...
...while, there was plenty of oil in Rhodesia. The refinery at Umtali, supplied by pipeline direct from the port of Beira in Portuguese Mozambique, had enough oil to supply the nation for ten weeks even if the pipeline was cut, and Smith last week airily advised Rhodesians that there was no need to cancel their holiday trips to save fuel. As New Year's Eve approached, in fact, the only thing rationed in Rhodesia was Scotch whisky...
...cautious scientists ran an ingenious check: they irradiated the coconut milk and in it they grew cell tissue from a normal cell. When they examined the tissue cells, however, they were startled to find that the chromosomes were damaged. And this time they could not blame the result on direct radiation...
...found in all living cells, the Cornell discovery also suggests that humans who are exposed to extensive radiation may produce the questionable chemicals in their own bodies. And this suggests that some of the cellular damage that results from radioactivity may be caused by those chemicals-not only by direct impact of the high-energy particles that most scientists have held responsible for altering or destroying chromosomes. If this proves to be true, positive identification of the sugar-derived compounds might someday lead to the development of medicines that could alleviate or prevent many forms of radiation sickness...
...which no one ever lived. These images are deliberately insoluble puzzles, meticulously worked-out scenarios of subtle shock calculated to spur the unconscious. But contemporary man finds enough anxiety in the very air that he breathes and more challenging puzzles in the streets that he walks -in the direct apprehension of reality...