Word: maps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...region's political map seems almost giddily drawn to avoid grappling with any such problems. Community boundaries dart haphazardly: they were often drawn by developers who wanted to run their towns as well as build them. The 2,042-sq.-mi. area of Dade County, for example, is now governed by 27 separate and often rival municipal governments. Dade County attempted to draw some order out of its political chaos in 1959 by combining such common services as transportation and sewer systems. But the 27 towns still raise their own taxes, pass their own zoning ordinances and run their...
...scale U.S.-Egyptian army exercises. The most spectacular event will occur on Nov. 24, when six B-52 bombers, flying from North Dakota bases and refueled three times in midair, will skim across the Egyptian desert at an altitude of a few hundred feet and drop live bombs (see map), a feat that will not necessarily inspire worldwide...
Members of the group will carry out a 10,000-household survey, designed by the faculty of the Department of Biostatistics at the SPH in conjunction with FACE. The 15-minute telephone survey, the product of eight months of collaboration, is designed to yield a health map of the community that correlates patterns of illness with specific geographic locations, Dr. Alfred Gellhorn, visiting professor of Health Policy and Management said yesterday...
Also on the Columbia were two devices designed to map various geological resources. An imaging radar, a 30-foot long rectangular antenna, bounced sonar waves off terrain and oceans to produce images of the reflecting surfaces. And a multispectral radiometer scanned selected areas at ten infrared wavelengths...
...some dazzling applications of modern electronics and semiconductor technology that make cars cheaper, safer and easier to drive. Japanese manufacturers are using computers on a chip to improve fuel economy, monitor the engine and even make a new electronically controlled transmission operate smoothly. Three separate companies exhibited an electronic map display mounted on the dashboard that points out the car's destination, gives instructions on the best route to follow and notes the progress of the trip...