Word: normale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...devices that would make them effective into the mid-70s. Further, he was reluctant to commit the nation to a vast defense expenditure (210 FB-llls would cost about $1.5 billion, 210 AMSAs would cost $8.1 billion) in view of the gap between development time and intelligence estimates. Under normal circumstances, it would take eight to ten years to develop and deploy AMSA from the date the decision to go ahead was made. But national intelligence estimates can project potential enemy defensive capabilities only two to five years in advance. With this gap, the nation could be committed...
...contents of his bills, he was remarkably candid about the pressures that he faces from Portugal's archconservative military and landowners on one side and the restless liberals on the other. "We have sought to create a political climate free from hatred or retaliations that will permit normal relations between those who profess different opinions," said Caetano...
...produce an artificial heart. It will, he predicts, come in stages. First, a cumbersome external device that will keep the patient bedfast. Second, a portable but still external model. Eventually, he hopes for an implantable device with an internal power supply that will enable the patient to resume normal activities. Even then it may not be a substitute for the whole heart, but only for the two lower, more important pumping chambers...
...require assistance or must go to the lavatory, raise your hand. Captors permitting, there will be normal beverage service aboard the plane. In fact, abnormal beverage service may be provided. Aboard Eastern Flight 73, hijacked in November on its way from Chicago to Miami, the hijacker himself bought drinks for all passengers who desired them, at a cost...
Again and again, at endless conferences, the three men review their flight plan, talk through the sequence of actions that they must take to carry out normal maneuvers, the emergency measures that they must follow to correct equipment failures. For at critical points during their trip, a balky rocket could leave them stranded in orbit around the moon or drive them into collision with the lunar surface. By-the time they are fired from Cape Kennedy's launch pad 39A by the world's most powerful rocket, Saturn 5, Borman, Lovell and Anders will be the most thoroughly...