Word: echoing
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...great liner: a smudge of paint scraped from the smokestack. Ballard also disclosed that after "mowing the lawn" with highly advanced technological gear (sweeping his sonar back and forth and checking its soundings with a magnetometer), the expedition had actually located the Titanic with a "25-year-old echo sounder. It could have been done in a fishing boat...
There it rendezvoused with the Suroit, which had been sounding the water since June 28. The French ship had picked up an important echo that was probably associated with the Titanic. Armed with that information, Knorr scientists decided to deploy Argo at that spot. In less than a week, the researchers received the first dim video images of the Titanic that they had been praying for. "We went smack-dab over a gorgeous boiler," crowed Ballard to the Canadian television network CTV. "It was just bang, there we were...
...throughout the 1970s, House committees refused to name student delegates to the CRR, charging it could punish students for their political beliefs without appeal to a higher body. Anti-apartheid protesters today continue to echo this sentiment...
...incessant assault of gunpoint interviews is over, the Fourth of July cheers for the 39 returning hostages have died away and other faces are filling TV screens. But reverberations of the crisis are likely to echo through the U.S., the Middle East and the world for months to come, affecting matters ranging from Israeli Cabinet decisions to congressional votes on the American budget. In particular, Ronald Reagan comes out of the crisis enjoying a new lift in public support and praise from some of his sharpest critics, who confessed that in this case at least he was not the headstrong...
...fellow Californian in the White House. In San Francisco, which has no income tax but exacts hefty real estate levies, Mayor Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, endorsed the overall Reagan plan as "a major step forward." Only in a few high-tax states in the Midwest did officials echo Cuomo's strong opposition to the loss of deductibility. Said Wisconsin Governor Anthony Earl, a Democrat: "If the federal government wants states to take on more responsibilities in education, in human services, in the environment, then they shouldn't penalize us for raising taxes to pay for them...