Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glad in a way, that I did write Redux instead of pulling ahead with it. This, again, was' a bit of a leap of the imagination--I haven't lived in Pennsylvania for a long time now and this Brewer is a rather different Brewer from the one in Rabbit Run--which was based on scenes in my childhood where I knew every wrinkle in the pavement. I still felt on solid ground in this book in a way...the next book will have to be a jump in the dark...
...book has been hailed for its portrait of 'Middle America.' Did the necessity to get that close to a man who is inarticulate and guided by mass culture to as great a degree as Rabbit require a similar leap...
AGRICULTURE: Farm price supports in the current year will leap $1.8 billion over original estimates to a total of $4.4 billion, then will decline slightly in 1973 as acreage is taken out of production. Retail food prices will remain high, and farmers' incomes will also rise, helping calm the farm belt revolt that threatens to deny Nixon some of his traditional support...
...leap second grows out of science's pressing need for extremely accurate clocks. In 1967, an international agreement redefined the basic unit of time -the second-in terms of the precise tuning-fork-like vibrations of the cesium atom (9,192,631,770 cycles per sec.). But while cesium, or atomic, clocks are the most accurate timepieces ever built by man (they lose no more than one ten-millionth of a second in a day), other measures of time-hours, days, months -are still geared to the earth's rotation. Unfortunately, as clocks go, the earth is less...
...leap second should eliminate such discrepancies. The International Time Bureau in Paris will now simply issue a directive, probably once a year beginning in 1972, based on worldwide astronomical observations of the earth's rate of rotation. If the accumulated slowdown requires it, the bureau will advise participating countries to reset their clocks by the addition of a second (or subtraction of a second if the earth's rotation should speed up). Thus atomic clocks in all parts of the world should always be ticking off the same seconds. Why wasn't the leap second created sooner...