Word: know-how
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...first general agreement to pool space age hardware and know-how came in Moscow last October. Since then, the two nations have agreed to adopt lighting systems and color codes used by the Americans, and have chosen the nitrogen-oxygen cabin atmosphere preferred by the Soviet Union. In addition, both sides have decided upon new docking hardware different from the kind now used by either...
...combination of rich oil deposits and relative political stability has long lured investment money and technology to Venezuela. Largely on the strength of this inflow of cash and know-how from the U.S. and elsewhere, the country's living standard has risen to the highest level in South America. Lately, however, a tide of economic nationalism aimed at minimizing outside control of domestic resources has been on the flow in Latin America. Oil investment has been a frequent casualty. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Bolivia have put their oil-producing industries under state ownership. In Peru, the largest...
...brisk and straightforward. A typical Garnett phrase like "bother the fellow" has become "the hell with him." And those elaborate patronymics have disappeared, so that Tatyana Pavlovna is now simply Mrs. Prutkov. But in his effort to be up-to-date, MacAndrew also afflicts us with such colloquialisms as "know-how" and "twerp." Mrs. Garnett's simple statement, "Don't be angry, Prince, I'll leave you," turns into "Take it easy, Prince, I'll make myself scarce...
...death of the SST need not be seen as a vote against exploring the unknown. It is not a triumph for the hysterical foes of all technology. For one thing, the SST was vulnerable to the criticism that it does not represent a genuine technical advance. Much of the know-how necessary to build a Mach 3 aircraft-in titanium metallurgy and engine intake design, for example-was already in hand from development of the X-15, the SR-71 and the B-70. Says Harvard Sociologist Daniel Bell: "The technology argument made no sense to anybody who followed...
HAVING always professed their faith in know-how, Americans have built empires of technology unparalleled in the world. The largest and for at least 25 years the most exciting of these has been the aerospace industry?the high-performance, high-speed realm of planes and missiles. Each year it has received barely conceivable billions from the national treasury, and each year its products seemed to transport Americans higher, faster and farther than ever before. After the U.S. Senate voted last week to shoot down the supersonic transport, which would have been the costliest commercial product in the nation's history...