Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forum, Gardner said, the U.N. "serves our national interest by providing us with a useful instrument to build support for American policies." He held that the U.N., by publicizing "acts of injustice," had accomplished such results as the Soviet withdrawal from Iran...
...smaller U.S. territory, all spaced 600 to 1,000 miles apart. The foreign technicians in the control posts in Russia-one-third would be Russians, one-third U.S. and British, and one-third from other countries-would be confined to their stations. They would merely report instrument readings suggesting a blast, and then an international team would move in to interview citizens, search for radioactive rock, etc., within strictly limited areas. The U.S. wants a minimum of twelve such on-site inspections a year in Russia. At one point, the Russians seemed to agree to the principle of inspection...
...using earthquake station seismologists on a project like this," he explains, "is like revising our measurement system without consulting the Bureau of Standards." Others on the committee included representatives of instrument companies, and one man who, according to Leet, "never took the equivalent of Nat. Sci. 10." Berkner himself is a fairly well-known scientific administrator; he and nuclear physicist Hans Bethe were the only members of the panel not associated with those who were awarded grants by the panel itself (for "further research...
...have been found), the most vital piece of wreckage was dredged from nine feet of water-the 7O7s flight recorder, a basketball-sized sphere containing important information on the plane's flight path. The rest of the pieces-shattered engines, crumpled spars, smashed pumps and instrument panels-are not much larger...
...will take months for scientists to interpret all the new information that OSO is sending about the sun. Every instrument on the complicated satellite is apparently doing its duty. OSO is expected to function as a solar observatory for about six months, when its supply of compressed nitrogen will be exhausted...