Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doubtful that we could go back to a Congress of citizen legislators at this stage of our national life. But the drift toward a Congress of elected bureaucrats has touched off a profound philosophical confrontation. One side believes that all Government servants must be thoroughly divorced from the private sector so as to eliminate conflicts of interest and corruption. The other side argues that a Government of the people, by the people and for the people must have leaders who move back and forth between the private and public sectors. Without cross-pollination, this thinking goes, the Government loses touch...
Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. at San Diego State University: "We cannot acquiesce in the drift toward Armageddon. For the stake is supreme: it is the fate of humanity itself. Let me say at once that the answer to the arms race is not unilateral nuclear disarmament. The renunciation of nuclear weapons by the West would place the democratic world at the mercy of Soviet Communism. History has proven beyond all argument that mercy is not a salient characteristic of any Communist regime. Neither the arms race nor unilateral disarmament holds out hope. What we must do rather is to revive...
...that they could slide like those in a car. Optional grooming aids were added to the personal kits of the astronauts (though Ride pointedly has not said whether she will wear lipstick or powder for the inevitable orbital TV shows). Included as well are tampons, linked together lest one drift off when the box is opened. The shuttle's single privy was already designed with women in mind. Instead of the flexible hose used by the male-only crews of the old Gemini and Apollo spacecraft, NASA provided a wide cuplike attachment that fits over the crotch. A curtain...
...machine with a small screen that feeds back information on such physiological indexes of stress as blood pressure, tension in the facial muscles or, most frequently, the temperature of one's fingers - the colder, the tenser. By loosening their muscles, breathing deeply or letting their thoughts drift, patients learn that they can control their stress response; they can make their blood pressure drop or the temperature in their hands rise by as much as twelve to 14 degrees. After six to ten sessions, at $150 each, patients are weaned from the machines and are able to elicit the relaxation...
...data processing, noted that one of the principal aims of the project was just to acquaint executives with the possibilities of the personal computer. Predicted Bennett: "Only 20% will become day-to-day users. Another 40% will use theirs occasionally, and I suspect the remainder of the computers will drift toward users' homes...