Word: mapped
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...week's end Volcker had the measures that he wanted and called a mid-morning meeting of the board's governors in the Fed's second-floor boardroom. There, against a backdrop of silk wall coverings and an enormous blue-and-gold map of the U.S., the governors mulled over their chairman's proposals for one hour, then two, then through lunch and on into the afternoon...
...university working committee for the handicapped and faculty coordinators at each school provide a shuttlebus, a tactile map of the campus, and tapes that explain the layout of the university...
McGee-McGraw stumbles into the camp and is immediately captured. After being forced to murder one of the terrorist group, he is tentatively accepted by the crazies, nine distinctly characterized men and women who have come to mania from all over the map. After a harrowing indoctrination, "Dads," as the kids call him, finds out that they have blown his cover. He has no choice but to blast his way out, killing all his captors-and nearly blowing his mind. It is the most intense and savage narrative that MacDonald has ever written. As for McGee, he recovers in time...
Hanoi asked for increased support from its Communist backers. But there was no rush to the barricades in either Moscow or Peking. On the afternoon of May 10, Dobrynin came to the Map Room of the White House. Out of the blue, he asked whether the President had as yet decided on receiving Soviet Foreign Trade Minister Nikolai Patolichev, who was in Washington on a visit. The request could only mean that the Soviet leaders had decided to fall in with our approach of business as usual. Trying to match the Ambassador's studied casualness, I allowed that...
...teams focused their attention on the twin quasars. Among them were David Roberts, Perry Greenfield and Bernard Burke, all from M.I.T., who analyzed signals from the quasars received at the Very Large Array (VLA) antennas of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory near Socorro, N.M. What resulted was a radio map that, with one important exception, coincided with the images seen with the Kitt Peak telescope. The difference was that the sensitive radio antenna array discerned two jets of material that seemed to be shooting from one of the quasars. Explains Physicist Burke: "Quasars do have outbursts and send out material...