Word: multibillion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...single bond unites the oil barons of Houston, it is belief in the manifest destiny of their freewheeling metropolis. Having established Houston as the premier city of the Southwest, local businessmen are engaged in one of their brashest ventures-a multibillion-dollar development program to attract corporations from the problem-plagued urban areas of the Northeast...
Doubts Dispelled. Until recently, radio telescopes were not designed to pick up such high frequencies, but the Bell researchers-Arno Penzias, Robert Wilson and Keith Jefferts-had some timely aid: a newly developed telephone transmission device that can convert frequencies in the multibillion-hertz range into more easily detectable radio frequencies of about 100 million hertz. After adapting this device to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's 36-ft. dish antenna at Arizona's Kitt Peak, the Bell scientists aimed the radio telescope at the distant Orion Nebula, a region of glowing gases more than 1,600 light...