Word: joints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Defense Department, told the Senators that he had devised dart launchers that were disguised as walking canes and umbrellas. In addition, he developed a device that fitted into a fluorescent bulb and spread a biological poison when the light was turned on. Senseney also participated in a joint test by the CIA and Defense Department of the New York City subway system's vulnerability to a poison-gas attack in either 1966 or 1967. Without the knowledge of New York City officials, the scientists threw containers of a simulated poison on the tracks of two subway lines. Passing trains...
...unpredictable." Filling his office with flow charts, maps and graphs, he established a reputation for probing analysis of complex issues. He took pride in exposing economic illiteracy, whether demonstrated by conservatives or liberals, admirals or environmentalists. He won coveted committee assignments: Armed Services, Finance, Public Works and the Joint Economic Committee...
...graduate schools, both of which have tentatively agreed to form a centralized recruitment consortium with Harvard. If the consortium idea is approved at a meeting of the three schools in New Haven next week, it seems likely that this year's applicants will be the first to file a joint application, which would automatically be considered by all three schools...
...withdrawal of spending power, even with tax rebates. A downward pull on an economy which has just bottomed out of the worst recession since the Great Depression, and is bouncing upward like a soggy ball-bearing. Charles Schults of the Brookings Institution, supported by Congressional Budget Office and Joint Economic Committee studies, says that with decontrol on top of the expected OPEC price increase in October, we'll be plunged back into recession. Only it will be worse this time, because we'll be starting in the depths and then diving...
...three years they worked this joint and that in Edinburgh for at most $55 a night. Then one day in 1970 a record-company executive missed his flight back to London and dropped in at the Caves Club. The Rollers were playing. Almost immediately, the Rollers had a contract, and began turning out such British top-ten hits as Remember, Shang-a-Lang and All of Me Loves...