Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pave Way is a targeting system using the laser beam. Once an object has been identified, an aircraft equipped with Pave Way can "fix" it with a brilliant laser light, then release bombs that are fitted with special light-seeking devices. The bombs are automatically guided to the laser-illuminated target...
...swoops downward, the moon ship Antares (named for the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius) will travel at a slightly flatter trajectory than in the past, letting Astronauts Shepard and Mitchell keep a steadier fix on their target. Although the landing will still be essentially under computer direction, Shepard will probably take over the vertical controls at an altitude of 300 ft. The actual touchdown, in a flat region between small features called Triplet and Doublet craters, should take place at 4:16 a.m. E.S.T. Friday...
Classical Landscape, with Figures and Ruins: the title is on dozens of paintings. The image that pervaded European landscape painting for centuries was nearly always of an idealized Rome with its wrecked marble and Arcadian countryside. Curiously enough, the three artists who did most to fix its shape were not Italian but French-Poussin and Claude in the 17th century, Corot in the early 19th. But other French painters, not chiefly known as landscapists, also set down their impressions of that tawny city in which history lay preserved as in amber. None worked with a more impassioned delight than...
...conditions, something hitherto left largely to state regulation (except for coal mines). The law aims to reduce the shocking annual toll of on-the-job accidents: 14,500 workers killed and 2,200,000 injured. As organized labor wanted, the act gives the Secretary of Labor the power to fix safety standards for all factories, farms and construction projects involved in interstate commerce. As businessmen urged, the act leaves enforcement to a three-member commission to be named by the President...
...signs of human decay are everywhere in the welfare hotels of New York; they contaminate the very air. At the Hamilton Hotel on Manhattan's West Side, junkies, prostitutes and gaunt young toughs haunt the vomit-stained hallways in search of a fix or their next mugging victim. Though classified as "temporary" by the Department...