Word: dump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...planet, a fertile blue ball glowing in a black void. Apollo 9 Astronaut Russell Schweickart has a somewhat different view. In an interview in Co-Evolution Quarterly, a magazine devoted to ecology, Schweickart says, among other things, that perhaps the most beautiful sight in space is a urine dump. A urine dump? It seems that when orbiting astronauts release into space their voided urine, the liquid instantly freezes into millions of tiny ice crystals, which form a hemisphere and spray out in all directions from the exit nozzle. The same thing would happen to ordinary water, but none is ever...
...Jimmy Carter entered the White House. During his campaign, Carter made it clear that he felt each President should choose a Fed chairman whose views were compatible with his own-and he has chafed increasingly under Burns' open criticism of White House policy. But could Carter afford to dump the legendary and controversial Burns when his second four-year term as chairman of what has been called the nation's "Supreme Court of money" expires Jan. 31? At 73, Burns had become a rock-like symbol of resistance to inflation at home and a champion of a strong...
...chairman expires in two months. The White House staff is virtually unanimous in wanting Burns to go; Democratic Party leaders are just as insistent. But Carter knows that his freedom of choice is limited if he does not want to shake business psychology. Even if he chose to dump Burns, he most likely would pick not a liberal but a moderate or conservative to administer the nation's supply of cash and credit. Among the choices being discussed this week by White House aides...
...take Schorr back; Schorr was tempted. But Lawyer Califano told him: "You're mad. There's nothing left to go back to. They just want to get rid of that awful February agreement and have you back until people forget you're a hero, and dump you then." So Schorr "resigned" and took the money...
Passengers were startled by the extreme angle of ascent, which threatened to dump all their hand baggage into the rear toilet. But within 15 minutes the Concordski was level and cruising comfortably ten miles above ground, racing at twice the speed of sound toward Alma-Ata, 1,931 miles away...