Word: directs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy interceptor planes are already using air-to-air guided missiles (with electronic or infra-red detection) to boost their chances of a hit, e.g., the Air Force's three types of the Hughes Falcon and the Navy's Sidewinder, but such missiles must make a direct hit to kill, can be deflected by enemy countermeasures. Most promising experimental Air Force air-to-air missile: the Douglas Genie, a non-guided atomic missile that can kill at near-miss range of half a mile or more by the brute force of its explosion. Genie has been test-fired...
...present depression is a direct result of the monetary policy followed by the Eisenhower Administration, J.K. Galbraith, professor of Economics, and Seymour E. Harris '20, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, asserted in a letter released today...
...Italian government officials, Danilo Dolci's methods for helping the poor of Sicily have always been embarrassingly direct. Sicilians were hungry, so Social Worker Dolci became a hunger striker. When they were sick, he converted a three-room apartment into a clinic. To give jobs to jobless fishermen and farm hands, Dolci set them to work on one of the island's tattered roads in the hope that the government would pay them later; he was arrested and convicted of "invading government ground" (TIME, April 9, 1956). Most recently, in his crusade for decent housing, 33-year...
...reduce the shortage of college and university teachers, HEW wanted funds to provide 1,000 fellowships for graduate study the first year and 1,500 for each of the three years after that. Direct federal grants, matched by each institution, of up to $125,000 a year could go to campuses for salaries and equipment...
...ever to make a machine that will speak, understand or translate human language, solve mathematical problems with imagination, practice a profession or direct an organization, either we must reduce these activities to a science so exact that we can tell a machine precisely how to go about doing them or we must develop a machine that can do things without being told precisely how," Friedberg stated...