Word: looping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deserted Loop. By the time the storm subsided, thousands of abandoned cars and 500 city buses stood all but buried by a record 23 inches of fresh snow-whose weight was officially estimated at 24 million tons. All schools were closed, and most working people stayed home from their jobs. There were no mail or milk deliveries, and few newspapers found their way to readers. Virtually all travel in and out of the city was hampered; O'Hare International Airport was still closed early this week, the longest shutdown in its history. One newsman surveyed the deserted Loop, dubbed...
Even if birth-control pills were economical, it would be an uphill battle to train peasant women in their regular use. These days, the government is relying instead on the cheaper intrauterine plastic loop. Though it is about the simplest and most economical contraceptive available to India, the coil-shaped device has given rise to a host of rumors, one of them a report that it gives the husband an electric shock. More than 1,000,000 women have been fitted with the loops at clinics. Another 1,780,000 Indians have voluntarily undergone sterilization (for payments of less than...
Support for Abstinence. Too often the government has set unreachable goals and succumbed to the euphoria of issuing reports and statistics rather than taking action. Next year, for example, it is promising to put up 10,000 more billboards with such slogans as "Use the Loop" and to show slides at intermissions in 5,000 movie theaters. For the vast propaganda drive that it needs, however, a mere $1,330,000 has been budgeted. So uncertain is the trumpet for birth control in India that the official most responsible for selling the urgency of contraceptives-Health and Family Planning Minister...
...magnetically from other wastes. Rags, paper, plastics and aluminum, wood and rubber are hand-picked from the conveyer belt, each for assignment to reprocessing and recovery. The remaining organic material is "cooked" and deodorized to produce fertilizer. The object in view is that each city will become a closed loop-like a space capsule-and completely reuse all the water and solids that pass through the system...
Brown's forward line is awesome: Left wing Vic deJong is a masterful dribbler and shooter, who was relegated to the second All-Ivy team as a sophomore last year only because Harvard winger Charlie Njoku led the loop in scoring...