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...vacuum tubes, crammed into a bulky cabinet, to make an ordinary household radio. Today, postage-stamp-size electronic "chips," or integrated circuits, contain all the parts needed for far more complex electronic devices ranging from pocket calculators to missile guidance systems. But even these miracles of miniaturization may look gargantuan alongside the circuitry of the future. Scientists are now talking about turning individual molecules into electronic components...
...irony as substitutes for anger at oppression and building a revolutionary movement, as a political program to replace revolutionary work. Since Shapiro quotes Lenin so favorably, does this mean he endorses the overthrow of the U.S. government? Does he want to join with the Workers Power in the gargantuan task of building for socialist revolution...
...France has reigned as the seductive grande dame of the seas. The 1,035-ft. liner, longest in the world, could carry as many as 2,044 passengers amidst the splendor of spacious staterooms and marbled public salons. Her first-class dining room, where white-tied captains spooned out gargantuan portions of caviar, was praised as "the best French restaurant in the world...
Thernstrom's research effort was gargantuan. Information from city directories, the U.S. Census, old tax records, among other sources was analyzed by computer. Where the mass of information was too great to be considered as a whole, he considered random samples of Boston residents and closely studied their careers and those of their children. The result is eminently readable, but also imparts an aura of impartiality that is missing from most non-quantitative social histories. Judgments concerning the fairness of social systems may vary considerably, but the degree of social mobility in a community is quantifiable. Thernstrom has made...
Right now, the spirit in oil markets is one of manic price escalation. Producers round the world last week joined in the gargantuan increases started by the Persian Gulf nations. Nigeria and Venezuela, which supply 10% of U.S. oil imports, raised posted prices (a theoretical base figure for taxes that influences the actual selling price) to more than $14 per bbl., topping the Persian Gulf price of $11.65. Libya more than doubled its posted price to a hair-raising $18.76. Indonesia, supplier of 6% to 7% of the oil that the U.S. imports, lifted its actual selling price from...