Word: grid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians have also agreed to build a $20 million plant to turn out heavy boilers, bridge girders and cranes. Czechoslovakia has promised a $15 million precision-tool factory. On a smaller scale, the U.S. Government last week agreed to provide $245,000 for the planning of a nationwide power grid to integrate the electricity that seven new hydroelectric dams will provide by 1967. In recent months, the U.S.'s American Motors, Britain's Rootes, France's Citroën and West Germany's Volkswagen have all signed deals to begin assembling cars in Iran, thus giving...
...pause to rebuild, recuperate and resupply. Between 20,000 and 40,000 Red Chinese coolies were at work repairing railroads north of Hanoi, while scores of thousands of North Vietnamese laborers worked south of the capital on bridges, roads and other bombed facilities. A major project: establishing a primitive "grid" of interconnecting roads to offer alternative routes if the bombings resumed. Antlike swarms of work gangs took an average of only 48 hours to repair bombed roads, as little as 72 hours to fix shattered rail lines. Where the rail damage was too extensive to repair, work battalions often...
Asked by Subcommittee Chairman Walter Rogers of Texas whether measures taken by utility companies since the blackout-particularly to provide more efficient grid connections and adequate auxiliary generating equipment-are "of sufficient permanency to solve this problem," Swidler declared: "Without legislation, this problem cannot be solved...
Perhaps the concept of the multiversity includes a degree of chauvinism: the Berkeley application asks how long one has been a resident of California. (For that matter, the first page features a huge grid in which one is supposed to summarize one's attendance at the University of California; later one discovers a smaller box for attendance at other universities.) Although Harvard may feel unduly proud of the internationalism implied in the directive that "the enclosed application should be completed in English," one should point out another type of broad-mindedness: the application asks one to list "secondary and preparatory...
...course, if the people who are recommending you do check the most flattering boxes on the grid and your essays do indeed place your life and interests in the top 1-2 per cent, you may get into graduate school and/or win the fellowship. But don't rejoice prematurely--remember, the army sends out its congratulatory letters before you even bother to fill out the forms