Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fallen far from its $24.6 billion peak of 1949, the nation's gold pool partners and its creditors throughout the world are not at all anxious to bring down the present monetary system by drawing out the remaining U.S. supply. And Congress, as Moore urges, may soon expand the available supply by ending the requirement that enough gold be kept frozen to back a minimum 25% of the value of currency in circulation. That would free all of the nation's $12.43 billion in gold for the support of the $35 price abroad...
Simultaneously time-sharing has started to expand faster than batch-processing. The Medical School, and medicine in general, have started buying large chunks of time on the SDS 940. One new project responsible for this upsurge is a heart-care unit to monitor continuous heart-patient problems, and to detect subtler signs of danger than the cardiologist can ordinarily hope to notice. Consoles also aid interviews with patients suspected of having genetic problems, by rapidly accumulating genetic history...
...says: "The only two leagues in which a player can hit .220 and get a raise are the American League and the National League." Last week, meeting in Mexico City, National League owners decided to spread the talent even thinner. Following the lead of the American League, which will expand to twelve teams in 1969, they voted to grant new franchises to two as yet unnamed cities (probably San Diego and Dallas) "not later than...
...York Composer Steve Reich taped a short phrase from a Harlem boy's account of a riot, played it back stereophonically so that the words ("Come out to show them") gradually expand spatially from one to eight channels, creating a 13-minute study in mounting obsession. On other disks, Composer Henri Pousseur blends voices and taped sounds to make an airy sound-picture of the Belgian city of Liège, while Pauline Oliveros and Toshi Ichyanagi create broad, abstruse patterns by tinkering electronically with the sounds of chorus, organ and strings...
...Chicago's Mather High School, an honors class in physics is discussing the properties of gas. "They mix together," volunteers one student. "They expand and contract," says another. How about constructing a model, suggests Teacher Daniel Cieslik: "Should it look like a big wad of cotton? That expands and contracts." By prodding and questioning, Cieslik eventually gets the class to focus on the rapid molecular motion that characterizes gases...