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Word: indirections (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite such practical questions, Winooski's dome is stirring widespread interest. Tigan has been besieged with requests for radio and television interviews. He has also had an indirect boost from Buckminster Fuller, father of the geodesic dome. Says Shoji Sadao, Fuller's partner in the New York architectural firm of Fuller & Sadao: "Maybe we're getting out of the realm where this is just a pipe dream or visionary, and slowly getting into the realm of the practical." Maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Dome for Winooski? | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Brynteson cut down the Bruins early in the second half when she placed an indirect kick from 20 'yards out into the net at 8:46. Five minutes later, Brynteson booted the ball in for what appeared to be the go-ahead goal, but the play was called offsides...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Brynteson Blazes; Booters Bop Brown | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

...committee structures directly involve only a fraction of the shop-floor work force. They challenge the hierarchical organization of daily production in only indirect ways. Such committees are potentially a useful adjunct to a union board room seat, but they don't create real shop-floor democracy...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Blue Collars on the Board | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

Some of the report's toughest language is aimed at the ''understaffed and conceptually weak'' training of the control room operators at T.M.I. There is an indirect accusation that such training may be even more deficient elsewhere in the industry. The T.M.I, operators, the report notes, scored higher than the national average in the NRC licensing and operating examinations. Nonetheless, in these tests, ''emphasis was not given to fundamental understanding of the reactor and little time was devoted to instruction in the biological hazards of radiation. The content was left to the instructors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Scathing Look at Nuclear Safety | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

CAMBRIDGE VOTERS will consider six non-binding referendum questions tomorrow. Perhaps the most important of these is Question 5, which would ask the city not to invest in financial institutions doing business in South Africa. Citizens should discourage any support of apartheid practices, however indirect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Good Questions | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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