Word: optimum
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...beginning to look as if several important components of Soviet technology should be stamped made in japan. Japanese police last week arrested an employee at Tokyo Aircraft Instrument for illegally selling the KGB a computerized system that enables pilots to plot optimum flight paths based on wind conditions. The technology does not have great military significance, but the incident could hardly have come at a more embarrassing time for Japan. Tokyo has been on the defensive for a month because of revelations that a subsidiary of Toshiba sold the Soviets high-tech equipment for the manufacture of submarine propellers...
Regular exercise, the researchers found, is a critical factor in determining longevity. Men who walked nine or more miles a week (burning off at least 900 calories), for example, had a risk of death 21% lower than those who walked less than three miles a week. The optimum expenditure of energy seems to be about 3,500 calories a week, the equivalent of six to eight hours of strenuous bicycling or singles tennis. The Harvard men who worked out that much had half the risk of death of those who did little or no exercise. Moreover, the study showed that...
...Atlanta regional manager with the real estate firm of Cushman and Wakefield, smart technology actually increases them; for one thing, more sophisticated workers are required to maintain the buildings. "We're no longer talking about boilers and fuse boxes," says Jones. "Maintenance crews today have to know what 'optimum start times' and 'digital control devices' mean." Others criticize the lack of choice implicit in a smart building, which gets its technology from only a few suppliers...
...Bonnie Marie and Richard Charles. "They're beautiful," said Mrs. Frustaci. "I just hope they live." All have a better than fifty-fifty chance of survival. But James Martin and Bonnie Marie still have serious lung problems, and none of the five yet weighs more than 29 oz. (An optimum newborn weight is 8 lbs.) They will not be following Mom home for at least three months...
...leagues. While awaiting promotion with the St. Louis Cardinals, though, Frey once drew near enough to Stan Musial to hear a definition of a doubleheader that stayed with him. "That's when Stanley can get ten hits in one day!" Musial exclaimed. "Think of it, ten hits!" On such optimum expectations, all Cubdom is founded, even in the after-math of three season-ending losses to San Diego last autumn, when a victory in any one would have won the pennant...