Word: gs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...merchant tradition in Florence to 1410. For the past six decades, members of the clan have prospered by selling expensive handcrafted leather goods. In the past year they have begun producing dresses and men's pants in a fabric made of linen and synthetics, and monogrammed with tiny Gs; it matches the material of. a new line of suitcases...
...Council of Environmental Advisers, which would have the same influence over the environment as the Council of Economic Advisers has over the economy. Above all, ecology?the interrelationship of all living things within the framework of the environment?must become as familiar a word to bureaucrats as GS-12 or ABM. As the new President's task force commented: "The real stake is man's own survival?in a world worth living...
Barrios was taken to Ames and strapped into the NASA centrifuge. He was spun for half a minute at 4 Gs. X rays showed that nothing had happened, so he was whipped around again, this time for 20 seconds at 5 Gs, with a final spurt of 6 Gs. This time the experiment seemed successful: X rays indicated that the little piece of lead was safely embedded in the brain tissue around the upper ventricle. But Barrios was still being closely watched-in case he needs another trip to the centrifuge...
...listing of fuzzy phrases. It was popularized in Washington by Philip Broughton, a U.S. Public Health Service official, who circulated it among civil servants and businessmen. A sort of mini-thesaurus of bafflegab, it consists of a three-column list of 30 overused but appropriately portentous words. Whenever a GS-14 or deputy assistant secretary needs an opaque phrase, he need only think of a three-digit number -any one will do as well as the next-and select the corresponding "buzz words" from the three columns. For example, 257 produces "systematized logistical projection," which has the ring of absolute...
...Pogo Effect," an up-and-down, pogo-stick-like vibration that was also detected during Saturn 5's initial flight. The effect, caused by the synchronous pulsing of all five first-stage F-1 engines at their natural resonant frequency, produced a vibrational force of three-tenths Gs during the first flight-enough to jar astronauts had they been aboard, but not enough to cause any serious difficulty. On the April shot, however, the Pogo Effect reached a force of seven-tenths of a G, enough vibration so that astronauts would not be able to read instruments or flick...