Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michael Blumenthal, Federal Reserve Board Chairman G. William Miller, White House Economics Adviser Charles Schultze, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long, Senator Edward Kennedy, House Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman, and Conable. What emerged, among other things, was a surprisingly broad consensus that tax policy, both as a mirror of the nation's goals and as a tool to help achieve them, is moving-and must continue to move-in a new direction...
...sounder and more reliable system of justice than the confusing and ineffective process now operating. A society can be subverted by a system that appears to be not only inconsistent but almost whimsical in its workings. A huge sense of grievance festers. The injustice of the courts seems to mirror the injustice of the economic system. All the rules of society seem to have been changed. You work hard, but inflation destroys your gains; so much for the work ethic. You obey the law, but somehow you get hurt and criminals profit, unpunished...
...density of CO2 increases, the gas acts somewhat like a one-way mirror. Rays of life-giving sunlight can pierce it, heating the surface of the earth. But when this heat is radiated back by the ground in the form of longer infra-red waves, it is screened by the CO2, which absorbs it, thereby raising its own temperature and that of the ground. This so-called greenhouse effect is dependent on the concentration of atmospheric CO2: the greater the amount, the warmer the earth may become...
...Palo Alto to work with her orchestrator. Hairdresser John Bettiol works over her for hours, striving for that perfect balance between wholesomeness and sophistication. He coaxes Christine's permed frizz into a Cosmo-mane of curls, daubing her face with goo and powder. Sneaking a peek in the mirror, she is aghast. Her mouth is caked in red sludge. "It should have blood dripping from it," she jokes. The photographer is unimpressed. What Christine hates most is the fake eyelashes...
...Space Telescope, a 2.4 m (94 in.) mirror scheduled to be placed in orbit by the space shuttle in the early 1980s. Flying above the obscuring atmosphere, this observatory should pick up a variety of celestial phenomena, including infrared and ultraviolet radiation, and reveal hidden structural details of galaxies that may harbor black holes...