Word: frictioned
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...police investigation had proved fruitless until last week. Friction among some of the five police agencies working on the case impeded progress, causing Governor William Milliken to observe that the departments had displayed only "passive cooperation" with one another. He ordered the state police to take over. The state cops played an important but unanticipated role in the first major break in the case. State Police Corporal David Leik returned from a vacation to find his house "disturbed." Leik's nephew, John Norman Collins, 23, had a key to the house. Going on Leik's report and other...
...start removing import quotas on 120 products, and move faster in approving requests from U.S. companies that want to set up joint ventures in Japan to build cars, electronic components and other high-technology products. Relations between the U.S. and Japan are becoming steadily closer-and closeness creates friction...
Lunar gravity is relatively so weak, as a matter of fact, that some scientists have suggested launching spacecraft by simply accelerating them with electrical power along a track. Unimpeded by atmospheric friction, the vehicles could accelerate very rapidly, limited only by the maximum gravity that their cargo could withstand. An unmanned craft designed to take a force of 50 G's, for example, could reach escape velocity on a track only four miles long. Manned ships, whose passengers could not be exposed to so high a G-force, would need a track considerably longer...
...Medical students are ball bearings-smooth, round, all alike and never creating friction." So said an admissions official at a New York medical school a few years ago. There are still many aspiring physicians who are politically conservative and personally conformist and whose overriding concern is the second Cadillac. This summer, however, as many of the nation's 35,000 student doctors begin summer programs or internships, there is friction aplenty, and a new, rough-edged type of student activist is very much in evidence...
...Justice Department in the early '50s?withdrew of his own accord because he thought his former job would raise opposition in the Senate. A fourth, Potter Stewart, an Eisenhower appointee to the court, took himself out because he thought that elevation of an Associate Justice would create friction and jealousy on the bench. Thomas Dewey, twice the Republican candidate for President, said simply that at 67 he was too old. A Chief Justice, said Dewey, should have at least ten years on the job. Burger, 61, at least has that prospect...