Word: objection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...barking orders into a battery of phones. On the seas and in the skies, the enemy is tracked by an armada of instrument-laden ships, balloons and buoys, aircraft and weather satellites that feeds intelligence into a support force of computers. But this is a bloodless war. The only object is to study the foe: Asia's mighty monsoon, the great seasonal winds that annually bring life or death to hundreds of millions of people...
...detected rhythmic radio signals from the constellation Aquila. The bursts were coming from a pulsar, or rapidly rotating neutron star-the incredibly compressed cadaver of a giant star whose nuclear fires have died out. Some 15,000 light-years away, it apparently was in orbit around a second compact object, perhaps another neutron star or even a black hole, whose gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape its grasp...
Other scientists were slightly more cautious. Larry Smarr of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics pointed out that the orbital reduction could have been caused by other influences, perhaps the tug of another unknown massive object. Still, Smarr and other astrophysicists seemed generally impressed. Said the University of Rochester's David Douglass, who was handing out buttons in Munich saying GRAVITY WAVES DO EXIST: "It is quite unlikely that Taylor's claim will be disproved...
...first category of object whose market was utterly changed by this was the original print-etching, woodcut or lithograph, a strictly limited edition of an image made, supervised and signed by an artist. Some original prints became almost as costly as master paintings. But prints were not reproductions. Photos or postcards could not satisfy the thirst for status. They were not exclusive; they were, in fact, genuinely democratic. Anyone could pin a postcard of a Rembrandt on the wall, for pennies. Hence the invention of another class of object, a chimera begotten by greed upon insecurity: the expensive reproduction...
...object of the hearings held last week in Washington's ornate Departmental Auditorium was a well-intentioned, but possibly disruptive plan by the Internal Revenue Service to promote integration in the nation's 20,000 private elementary and secondary schools. Such schools qualify for exemptions from federal taxes as nonprofit institutions. But since 1970, federal courts have canceled the exemptions of more than 100 schools, many of them Southern "white flight" academies. Last August the IRS proposed a new racial test of its own for those schools that have grown rapidly or been created following desegregation. The service...