Word: foreshortened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pragmatically, we all have to pay our bills--including the household accounts. A community of purpose and good-will can save time which in itself costa money. Money cannot buy efficiency and achievement, per se. Can we foreshorten the meeting structures; can we extricate ourselves from the slag heap of prejudice, arrogance and indifference? Is there room for innovative and imaginative planning? Can we count on "the inner-directed man" to bail us out--granted his qualification for the job? The "limbo" of merger might find part of its answer when we see all students on their own merits...
...other scientific data accumulated in three weeks aloft. Typically, Russian space officials made no prior announcement of the flight's impending end. On the contrary, there had been hints all along that the cosmonauts might stay in orbit as long as a month. If there were reasons to foreshorten the mission, however, they were apparently not medical. Only a few days before, Soviet doctors had reported that except for slight fatigue, the trio were in exceptionally good health. Thus, when disaster struck, it was totally unexpected. "None of us had doubted the successful outcome of the venture," said...