Word: driftings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...listeners on much. His style was reassuring but plodding and predictable. Sometimes defending his record, sometimes sounding almost as anti-Washington as Jimmy Carter, the President often seemed to say the right thing the wrong way. Earlier, at a shopping center in a Detroit suburb, the audience started to drift off as soon as he began talking...
Within the Ford White House, there is an aura of confusion and drift. The chief staff administrator, Richard Cheney, 35, gets generally high marks for making a wide range of people and conflicting ideas accessible to his boss. But the President has done little to ease the tension between Cheney, whose office has had an increasing influence on presidential speeches, and Robert Hartmann, a longtime Ford political adviser and chief speech writer. Recently Ford promoted Cheney Aide David Gergen, 34, to White House special counsel and assigned Stefan Halper, 31, to help Cheney and Gergen assess the political implications...
...same time, more and more Italians seem to have persuaded themselves, often reluctantly, that the only way to deal with Italy's economic drift and political scandals is to rap the Christian Democrats with a Communist vote. In local and municipal elections last June, Italy's self-confident Communists won almost 34% of the vote, compared with just above 35% for the Christian Democrats. Since then, the Christian Democrats, though thoroughly aroused to their plight, scarcely seem to have recovered any political ground. Says Small Businessman Eugenic Buontempo of Naples, reflecting the resigned attitude of millions...
...will be able to calculate the exact distance from each laser gun to LAGEOS. Thus, by placing stations on each of the dozen or so tectonic plates that constitute the earth's surface, they can track the rate and direction of the plate movement, which results in continental drift. With stations on each side of the San Andreas fault, geophysicists will be able to calculate the exact movement along the great crack in the earth's surface, which could aid in forecasting California's earthquakes...
...long, NASA has placed aboard it two stainless-steel sheets, each etched with a message conceived by Astrophysicist Carl Sagan of Cornell University. Designed to inform extraterrestrial visitors or future inhabitants of the earth about the LAGEOS mission, the message shows three maps of the earth, depicting the continental drift that the satellite will help observe. The uppermost of the maps shows the continents as they are thought to have existed 225 million years ago, when Africa and South America were joined. The middle map is a picture of the planet as it exists today and indicates the satellite...