Word: friction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although most of its attention focuses on Congress, the Jewish lobby does not ignore the White House, Pentagon or State Department?although one Kissinger aide claims that Jewish lobbyists have just about given up on the Secretary and work through Congress instead. Friction arose, for example, over Nixon's opposition to helping Soviet Jews through the Jackson Amendment, but Jewish leaders had no difficulty discussing it with him. One of Nixon's Jewish backers, Industrialist Max Fisher of Detroit, arranged such a talk. Fisher also set up a meeting with Nixon in which Jewish leaders urged intervention with the Soviet...
...with other federal investigative agencies. For example, the CIA informed these agencies of its surveillance of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Representative Claude Pepper of Florida, former Representative Cornelius E. Gallagher of New Jersey and the late Senator Edward Long of Missouri. At other times, however, there was friction among the agencies. FBI agents once discovered that a Manhattan-based CIA man was in close touch with a Pittsburgh Mafia chief who was being probed by the FBI. The FBI protested so vehemently that the CIA operative was sent to Italy until FBI tempers cooled...
...time zones begin, it arrived precisely one second late. For official timekeepers everywhere, including the National Bureau of Standards in the U.S., the delay was significant. The earth's rotation (which forms the basis of time units-hours, minutes, seconds) is gradually slowing down-largely because of tidal friction. For that reason, the timekeepers decided a few years ago to make an occasional correction by inserting a so-called leap second. In that way, the accurate atomic clocks that they rely on to keep the exact time do not get ahead of the less dependable earth. Since leap seconds...
Moynihan said last year when he visited Cambridge that the 1973 of India's escalating food debt with the U.S. was a very important step in easing friction between New Delhi and Washington...
...ball for the head of the femur, or thighbone. But even after the introduction of better bone cements eliminated one problem-the tendency of the new head to work loose-the results of the operation were often unsatisfactory. Because body fluids provided inadequate lubrication and even corroded the implants, friction between the ball and its socket caused both to wear...