Word: directs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worrisome assessment came from London, where the authoritative International Institute for Strategic Studies, taking annual stock of the global "military balance," declared that the Soviets' "impressive" all-round modernization not only gives the Warsaw Pact the edge over NATO in a prolonged ground war but also poses a direct threat to America's own intercontinental missile systems. "It will be eight to ten years before the United States could again restore a degree of invulnerability to their land-based deterrent forces," the IISS concluded...
...drive home these facts, ARCO has adapted a DOE system for a traveling exhibit that will visit 125 cities over the next 14 months and provide direct hands-on teaching of how to save gas. The visitor climbs into a V-8 Chevrolet Malibu that is mounted on a special platform. Then, following audiotaped instructions and other information that is flashed at him, he "drives" the stationary car in typical fashion over a simulated three-mile course. A measuring device reveals how much gas he used. Next, he takes the car over the course a second time, following instructions that...
Students are taught to do everything as cheaply as possible and to buy only what is necessary. The new builders learn to economize by making their own windows (one-third cheaper than the contractor's price) and by buying lumber direct from the mill (50% less than at a lumber yard). Heating, water and electricity bills can be trimmed by having large windows that face south to the winter sun, and by installing wood-burning stoves, hand pumps and compost toilets. Though conventional housing costs up to $40 per sq. ft., homes constructed along Shelter lines can be built...
...better and more important than I am. I had to concentrate all my inner resources, find everything good in my soul, and try and get a little closer to the image of that remarkable man of genius." Yevtushenko does not want to act again. But he is eager to direct a film, preferably one with the same boyhood-in-Siberia theme as his first novel. He'll probably hold out for points...
...Scott explains, questions about $15 million distributed under the University's "salary certification system." "The payroll distribution system and related internal controls are not in compliance with federal regulations," the 60-page document charges. "The system that was used and currently in use does not provide reasonable assurance that direct costs for the personal services of professorial and other professional staff were either proper or reasonable...