Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...huge new transportation system -outranking rails and airlines - is spreading across the U.S. in a spaghetti-like maze. Nearly a million miles long, it is almost completely invisible, carries no passengers, is deterred neither by rivers nor mountains. It is the nation's rapidly growing network of oil, gas and product pipelines, which now extends into all of the 49 continental states. Last week the biggest product pipeline of them all, built by Atlanta's Colonial Pipeline Co., slowly threaded its 36-inch ribbon of steel through the swamps and suburbs of New Jersey, two feet underground. Only...
...particular pride to Michael is Evanston's program for Educable Mentally Handicapped (EMH) students. He recounts with considerable relish how a CBS television show came to Evanston "to see our program for the talented but was so impressed by our EMH program" that the TV network fimled a report on it instead. "We're just as proud of this aspect of our program as we are of the other tracks...
This is not normally an easy matter. But making what was supposedly a protocol appearance on Russia's television network, U Thant told an estimated 40 million viewers that the U.N. is "facing a very serious financial crisis." What's more, he added, "I am convinced that the people of the Soviet Union and their leaders want the United Nations to develop into a really effective instrument for the maintenance of peace. To achieve this noble objective, it is up to all of us to try to find a solution to get the United Nations...
...well as financially. Result: a complexity of heirs who often have neither the managerial ability nor the foresight as shareholders to guide the companies left in their hands. More than one company has withered after its founder's death, and a few-the Stinnes plastics and machinery network is the most recent example-have actually died. To remedy this situation and to avoid huge inheritance taxes, many German firms are turning over ownership to corporate foundations. Last week, in the biggest such move so far, a foundation took over the automotive and electronics empire of Robert Bosch GMBH...
...from general use, engineers have lived with the nagging knowledge that oneway current is better for the longer hauls. DC transmission lines carry more power and are cheaper to build. Their smooth stream of electricity is easier to control and to blend with current from other sources in a network. Trouble is, DC cannot be handled by transformers; what was needed to fit it for the big-time was a practical method of manufacturing it from high-voltage AC current at the generator end of the line, and of converting it back to AC at the customers...