Word: governance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mesic" Atoms. Closer study showed that the mu mesons, which have negative electric charges, had attached themselves to positive hydrogen nuclei and were revolving around them as electrons normally do. Since mu mesons are 210 times heavier than electrons, the laws that govern the internal affairs of atoms force them to revolve at only 1/210th of the distance of electrons. The "mesic" atom formed in this way is somewhat heavier than an ordinary hydrogen atom but extremely small. It can therefore sift through the electron defenses of ordinary atoms and fuse with their nuclei...
...their devotion to neutrality, the canny, conservative men who govern Switzerland frequently carry noninvolvement in international politics to a point where the mountains seem to echo to the cry of hear no evil and see no evil. But the events in Hungary have stirred the Swiss like nothing has in years. Last week, casting traditional impartiality to the winds, Foreign Minister Max Petitpierre told the Swiss Parliament that in Hungary "we have witnessed and are witnessing the cold enslavement, through armed force, arrests and deportations, of a nation whose only crime is to strive for independence. There...
...motivation. For laboratory work is as vital to the advanced study of psychology as it is to the study of any other of the natural sciences. Through the study of animals, as well as mental patients and normal people, psychologists hope to gain insight into the mental processes which govern human behavior and activity...
...attack angered Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent who had, until then, been scrupulously careful not to criticize Britain publicly. He fired back the blunt charge that Britain, France and Israel had "taken the law into their own hands." Snapped St. Laurent: "The era when the supermen of Europe could govern the whole world is coming pretty close...
...modern dress, recognizing that business has changed from the freebooting days of the tycoon. What fiction now needs, suggests Chase Manhattan Bank Economist Robert A. Kavesh in a survey of current business fiction, is a "greater focus on the corporation itself and more particularly on the executives who govern collectively. No longer the villain of the piece, the businessman may appear in a variety of roles more adequately reflecting the range and variety of personalities that exist in the business world...