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Since the first of the year, the Administration has moved to ease the stockpile burden. It set up a Cabinet-level committee to review the program, last April eliminated the veto held by five Government departments. The Administration has drawn up a long-range disposal plan that it hopes will...
The third system at the astronaut's disposal, fly-by-wire, uses the jets and fuel supply of the automatic system, but is controlled by the hand stick. Instead of opening the peroxide valves directly, fly-by-wire works them through a set of electrical actuators. It is faster...
Living Off Inventory. Steel users are currently living off the huge inventory of 17 million tons that they piled up last winter as a hedge against a possible strike by the United Steel workers. The auto industry, which consumes one-fifth of the nation's steel, has enough at...
Everywhere, progress carries health problems in its train. Agricultural economies may be improved by a new network of irrigation ditches. But more ditches mean that more field hands are exposed to a debilitating infestation of flukes, transmitted by snails. In the mushrooming cities of newly developed countries, haphazard water supplies...
Foam from sewerage syndets sometimes piles up five feet high on rivers, and volcanoes of it belch and billow over the aeration tanks of sewage-disposal plants, to be windborne for blocks, blighting vegetation and stinging eyes.