Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invisible impact would, however, catch up with the nation soon enough. It had already shown up in one category. The Treasury reported last week that the loss in Britain's monetary reserves for May was $106 million, the highest one-month loss since sterling's serious weakness last July. Things are likely to get worse. The strike may already have cost Britain as much as $420 million in export sales...
...lunar altitude of 25,000 ft., the retrorocket was jettisoned and the vernier rockets took over the job of further reducing speed, stabilizing and gently guiding Surveyor along the proper trajectory toward its impact point. When it was 13 ft. above the lunar surface and descending at 3.3 m.p.h., the 620-lb. Surveyor shut down its verniers and fell the remaining distance. It struck the moon no harder than a parachutist hits the earth. And even this relatively small jolt was cushioned by hydraulic shock absorbers and crushable aluminum pads under Surveyor's legs and body...
...least four times before landing an instrument package intact on the moon and that the first seven of the ten planned Surveyor shots had been designated "engineering flights"-a tacit admission that U.S. scientists expected many failures before a successful soft landing was achieved. But when telemetry continued after impact-evidence that Surveyor had survived the landing-disbelief gave way to wild cheering. Half an hour later, on radioed command, the craft's television camera began to take its first pictures...
...same time he must be able to "Discuss the relationships and differences between Dulles' strategy of massive retaliation and MacNamara's doctrine of flexible response. Indicate the role of conventional war forces in each strategy." In other questions cadets must discuss the impact of new technology on strategy and tactics in the Civil War. Or explain the significance of limited warfare, as opposed to conventional warfare, within the context of nuclear stalemate. About half of the questions on most of the ROTC exams are essays...
...find Milos Forman, director of Peter and Paula and A Blond in Love, whose gentle touch conveys exquisitely subtle shifts of mood. At the other end stands the team of Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos, who have created in The Shop on Main Street a film of enormous impact and meaning...