Word: happening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They're going to elect one someday. But you never know what will happen until people make up their minds," Veilucci said yesterday...
...space is a urine dump. A urine dump? It seems that when orbiting astronauts release into space their voided urine, the liquid instantly freezes into millions of tiny ice crystals, which form a hemisphere and spray out in all directions from the exit nozzle. The same thing would happen to ordinary water, but none is ever dumped; it is all recycled through the spacecraft. "The most beautiful sight in orbit, or one of the most beautiful sights, is a urine dump at sunset," says Schweickart. "It's really spectacular." Well, as the French say, one man's meat...
...Exports. In classic theory, a decline in the dollar makes American goods cheaper and therefore easier to sell in foreign markets. That does happen, but the benefits are smaller than is often supposed. Many of the products that the U.S. sells abroad are "price inelastic"; sales do not necessarily go up when the price goes down. The U.S. is a major exporter of commercial jet aircraft and computers. But overseas customers buy them on the basis of quality and need, not price. Much the same is true of another major U.S. export, agricultural goods. The quantity of wheat that American...
...necklace) with the guru's plastic-covered picture dangling like a locket, and a personalized tidbit of wisdom from the guru's lips. (To a psychotherapist: "You will need much work because a psychiatrist is more puzzled in a way than a psychotic. Lose control. Let it happen.") Each apostle also receives a new name. Henceforth Richard Price will be Swami Geet Govind. One unfortunate drew the name Krishna Christ...
...throw out all the theorems and can all the corollaries about what should happen when Harvard plays a hockey game, any game. Nothing mattered last night, and just about nothing worked, and the Harvard hockey team now has the rest of reading period and all exam time to attempt to swallow the bitter 14-5 trouncing it took last evening at the hands of the Bionic Huskies of Northeastern...