Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wobble had begun to decrease for short periods of time. But between each of the arcs comprising the circle there was a break, marking a time when the wobble suddenly increased. Significantly, Mansinha and Smylie reported in Science, nearly all of the breaks occurred at the time of major quakes...
...geophysicists also discovered that there were noticeable changes in the path of the wandering pole from five to 20 days before many of the major earth tremors. By tracking the pole path more regularly, and by placing sensitive instruments along the earth's major fault zones, they suggested, scientists may some day provide advance warning not only on where and when an earthquake will occur, but how severe it will...
...that they had asked for. The plaintiffs won a writ of mandamus that will compel the county to provide for leven more probation officers, eight more clerks, and one judicial assistant at a combined cost in salaries of at least $193,000 a year. The order may become a major precedent. For judges elsewhere may decide that the way to get more staff is to challenge from the other side of the bench...
This is the peculiar magic of the strange plaster figures of Sculptor George Segal. In a new show at Manhattan's Sidney Janis Gallery, he demonstrates that at 44, he has survived his early classification as a pop artist to become a major, if idiosyncratic sculptor subject to no label whatever...
...spending, and the money supply to influence the economy -and he sold Kennedy on the idea of cutting taxes to stimulate business and employment. His successors, Gardner Ackley and Arthur Okun, have acted as important policymakers within the Johnson Administration. President-elect Nixon says that he will give "a major role" to the council, and he hails McCracken as "a centrist, a man who is pragmatic in his economics...