Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emergency order was introduced suddenly by Vellucci after discussion of a motion he made at last week's council meeting asking the city manager to transfer $250,000 to the Housing Authority for police protection...
Vellucci's motion was approved by a unanimous voice vote just before the council moved to adjourn...
Councilor Thomas W. Danehy, an unsuccessful mayoral aspirant who was left out of the coalition, divided its four liberals and two independents with two amendments to the motion stipulating that each post be filled only by Cambridge residents...
...late 1960s when the Federal Government began efforts to improve state and local law-enforcement agencies. Street crime and the Mafia were the main targets, but new programs and subsidies have helped fight police crime as well. "We are just now seeing the fruits of what was set in motion seven, eight years ago," says Brunner. "There is more money, more bodies and therefore more cases...
Among the most ancient of mechanical devices, the flywheel works on a simple principle: a rapidly spinning weighted wheel serves as a highly useful reservoir of energy. It has been put to work in a wide variety of ways. As a potter's wheel, it smooths out motion between movements of the foot pedal. On the crankshaft of an auto engine, it prevents uneven rotation that would result from piston strokes. But it is only recently that engineers looking for less polluting means of transportation have begun to give serious thought to tapping the whirling flywheel's energy...