Word: linearized
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...last major bastion of currency confusion. In school alone, according to an Australian survey, decimalization would save teachers up to 50% of the time they now take to teach children mathematics. In addition, English children often have to memorize the medieval apothecaries' scale (20 grains to a scruple), linear measure (40 rods to the furlong), dry measure (4 pecks to the bushel) and liquid measure (52.5 imperial gallons to a hogshead...
...Cahn and Susan Alevizos. Rolf Cahn and Eric Von Schmidt have an album on Folkways; those who have seen their live performances will be tempted to say the recording suffers from sobriety of one sort or another, but on the whole it is a fine recording. Ignore the captious linear notes by Cahn...
...success was that members have already reached agreement on most of the single items capable of being negotiated. Said one official: "It's getting very difficult to squeeze the orange any more." Prodded by the European Common Market countries, GATT was moving from piecemeal agreements toward a "linear" approach, by which nations would negotiate sweeping, across-the-board cuts on all their products-or at least on broad sectors of industry, such as nonferrous metals or organic chemicals...
...Under Secretary of State George Ball gave staunch support to linear agreements in place of the nation's present maze of reciprocal trade agreements. GATT-wide adoption of the linear approach would mark the boldest move yet toward free trade in the free world...
...hidden heart of matter. Born in New York and educated at City College of New York and Princeton University, Hofstadter went west to Stanford in 1950 determined to attack the great mystery of the inner structure of matter. Using a beam of high-energy electrons from Stanford's linear accelerator as a sort of microscope, he and a team of assistants proved that protons and neutrons, which form the bulk of matter, are dense at their centers, cloudlike outside and only one forty-thousandth of a billionth of an inch in diameter. Later research taught Hofstadter that protons, which...