Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lift-Off. Nicknamed "Maglev" (for magnetic levitation) by the Stanford engineers, the train could use any number of propulsion systems: propellers, jet engines or even rocket motors. But both Japanese and American designers favor linear induction motors. These are similar to conventional electric motors, but they have, in effect, been flattened out. Part of the undercarriage of the train acts as the motor's fixed coils, while a vertical guide rail in the center of the pathway takes the place of its spinning rotor. When enough electrical power is fed into the system, the train begins to move forward...
...only did nine of the first twelve patients report relief from pain and regain their ability to move about and lift objects without suffering fractures, but there was also a bonus that Dr. Bartter had scarcely dared to hope for. The treatment's effect lasted for months, and in one case for more than two years. If the effect wears off, Bartter says, the infusions can be easily and safely repeated. While no one yet claims to know what 'makes nature's calcium-regulating mechanism go wrong, medical science now has a way to put it right...
...wait another ten minutes if I were you. maybe twenty. It takes a while for the fuckin' gas to lift. Your eyes ain't dry yet either. Here, have some more eye-drops...
...Americans now take for granted the busy computers that click in offices, the lights that blaze all night in poultry farms, the sensitive machines that monitor patients in hospitals. The average U.S. household contains 16 electrical appliances. But the day may come when people casually flip a switch or lift a receiver-and nothing will happen...
...market, during his daily prayer periods. Takara's $1,000,000 "Beautilion" at the Osaka World's Fair is a futuristic pile of steel tubing and rounded capsules that reflects Yoshikawa's flamboyant sense of promotion. On one floor, 48 barber chairs shaped like lotus leaves lift visitors nine feet in the air to see a psychedelic display projected on the ceiling; the wailing sound track incorporates the voice of Yoshikawa in prayer...