Word: foiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stability somehow depends on the position of the front wheel's point of contact with the ground. The rider, after all, usually steers instinctively in the direction of a potential fall, thereby moving the point of contact to one side and increasing the bike's stability. To foil that balancing act, Jones replaced the regular front wheel with a small furniture caster mounted directly in line with the steering-post axis so that turning would not shift the point of contact. Trouble was. the caster quickly became almost red-hot and could not negotiate bumps more than...
...involved. That provision, which the Kremlin wants to insert in the friendship treaties that it has imposed on all the East-bloc countries, would apparently obligate those countries to aid Russia in case of a Sino-Soviet war. Some bloc members, noting that past friendship pacts were designed to foil only "aggression" from the West, are reluctant to comply. Rumania has already indicated dissent...
...with their best team in five years, the Tigers had arrived in Cambridge intent on avenging their 5-4 loss to Harvard last spring at Princeton-a defeat that had cost them sole possession of the EITA crown. But from the first, it seemed as though the Crimson might foil them again...
...despite the late rearrangement, Harvard must still be favored to capture its eighth consecutive Compton Cup and fifth straight race over a two year period, setting itself up once again as the chief foil to Pennsylvania's long-delayed dream of a national dynasty...
...city. It granted $84,700 to the Cedar Rapids police, who bought an alarm system from the Wells Fargo Alarm Services Division of Baker Industries. The company has put 350 intrusion alarms into gas stations, taverns, warehouses, stores and small factories. The alarms are tripped by various means-metallic foil on windows, ultrasonic waves, photoelectric beams-and connected by telephone wire to a central panel at police headquarters. If this gear catches many intruders, alarms wired directly to police stations may become commonplace for small businesses. Baker Industries' revenues have grown fivefold in the past five years, and management...