Word: fill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...identify 80% of the samples at a high odor concentration level and miss 80% at a low level. That range is known as the "confusion zone." When the tests are completed, the 100 employees with confusion zones closest to the group median will be placed on standby duty to fill the panel jobs. Says Story: "Nose duty will not be compulsory. It won't be written into the job description...
Carter has the time for all of that. He has stated he wants the man most qualified to take over the office. He also is searching for someone who can fill gaps in his own experience and run strong in areas of the country where Carter has not-for example, the Far West and Northeast. The two candidates who best fit that strategy, in the minds of professional politicians, are both Senators: Minnesota's Walter Mondale, 48, and Idaho's Frank Church, 51. Mondale, a cool, skillful legislator and campaigner, would provide Carter wide bridges to labor...
...Howard, 33, on vacation with his wife Linda and three daughters and visiting his parents in Idaho, had stopped around 10:15 at the newly completed Teton Dam, 40 miles northeast of Idaho Falls. Standing on an observation platform overlooking the 3,000-ft.-long, 307-ft.-high earth-fill dam, Howard, a geography professor at Minot State College in North Dakota, began taking routine tourist pictures with his Yashica 35-mm. camera. As he watched, "that darn hole started growing-quite slowly at first-forming a small waterfall down on one side. It still looked like just a minor...
...cause of the June 5 disaster, which unleashed 80 billion gallons of water, killed at least nine people, injured more than a thousand, inundated 400,000 acres, devastated several communities, and caused more than $1 billion in damage. Did the Teton rupture represent some weakness inherent in earth-fill dams? Probably not; in the past three decades there have been no significant problems with the other 250 such dams erected by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Was there some failing peculiar to the design or location of the Teton Dam? That seems more likely...
Haack would have preferred the bankers to cancel still more of the debt in return for warrants. Nonetheless, he had good reason to be pleased. The refinancing has bought the company the time it needs to try to fill its order books and refurbish Lockheed's image following its payola scandals. Shareholders will be asked to approve the deal at a long-postponed annual meeting early in the fall. Haack is confident that they will find the company's prospects brighter than they have in some years. Said he, in an interview with TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin...