Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...water is in fact locked inside the moon, its presence may be confirmed by electronic surveying gear aboard next year's Apollo 17 flight. Such water could have significance for future lunar explorers and colonizers, who would be relieved of the considerable problem of bringing their supply all the way from earth...
Later in the same month, Jackson was charged with a burglary. According to police, he broke into a motorcycle shop and stole various items of cycle gear. When brought in for booking, Jackson, who according to the police had already admitted to the crimes, allegedly instigated a fight with the arresting officer who had to be assisted by other policemen in controlling Jackson. Jackson was convicted of the burglary and put on probation...
Supporters of the Youth Authority pointed to its programs as the application of scientific methodology to corrections. The diagnostic centers, it was claimed, would take a juvenile's emotional temperature and gear his rehabilitation to him rather than forcing him to adjust to the destructive demands of survival in the tough, old-style reform schools. The addition of the forest camp alternative also received high praise. On the basis of the apparent success of the Youth Authority, California created an Adult Authority in 1944; and other states also established agencies geared to deal with juvenile offenders. Massachusetts became the third...
...with no paychecks with which to buy food, clothing and shelter even at stabilized prices?" Washington Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson adds: "Having reluctantly become an economic activist, the President should go all the way and support tax-cutting and job-creating programs that will put the economy into high gear and drastically cut unemployment...
...trip to London. But for Physicist Joseph C. Hafele and his companion, Astronomer Richard Keating, it was the beginning of a journey into the most esoteric realms of modern science. Occupying four seats in the big 747's tourist compartment-two for themselves and two for their scientific gear-they were setting off on an extraordinary round-the-world odyssey: an expedition to test Albert Einstein's controversial "clock paradox," which, stated simply, implies that time passes more slowly for a rapidly moving object than for an object at rest...