Word: mount
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...kind of Government baglady that casts about the federal agencies looking for spare clothes, tents or unused Government buildings. In addition, Congress has appropriated $210 million during the past three years to be dispensed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which normally handles crises like the eruption of Mount St. Helens. The money, funneled to local governments and charities such as the United Way and the Salvation Army, is "only a Band-Aid," concedes Mark Talisman, member of the National Board of Emergency Food and Shelter...
Having forsaken the summit of the terpsichorean mount. That's Dancing, through various approaches, reveals the slopes to be full of unusual treasures. The brisk journey drags in only a few spots. Dancers, like athletes, often move better than they speak, and the introductions they offer to the five sections are generally useless...
...possible by a $70 million grant to Caltech by the W.M. Keck Foundation, will have an innovative mirror system nearly 400 in. in diameter, which is twice the width and has four times the light-gathering capacity of today's reigning optical telescope, the 200-in. Hale device at Mount Palomar, Calif. When astronomers begin using the new telescope in 1992, it will push back the visible limits of the universe by billions of light years. Says Howard Keck, president of the foundation: "I'm told it will permit one to see the light of a single candle from...
Keck is only one of many telescopic brobdingnagians now in various stages of development around the world. In Tucson, scientists at the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (N.O.A.O.) and the University of Arizona are working on still another novel optics scheme: four 295-in. mirrors placed on a common mount. Each mirror would be 2 ft. thick but largely hollow, shaped like a honeycomb. The four could either be used in tandem, creating the equivalent of a gigantic 590-in. mirror, or separately. Overseas, Japanese astronomers also have their eyes on Mauna Kea; they hope to build a 295-in. telescope...
...already one year past the age at which he would have been retired at Merrill Lynch, and virtually anywhere but in Reagan's White House he would be considered conspicuously old for such a demanding job. He and Wife Ann, who have four grown children, built a home near Mount Vernon on property once owned by George Washington; ironically, they had purchased the land for their retirement. With a net worth estimated at close to $30 million, Regan hardly needs gainful employment. Yet friends say that he has thrived in his second career, and Administration insiders would not be surprised...