Word: parente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simple device first developed at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, it takes advantage of the fact that many long-lived radioactive substances can produce short-lived radioactive offspring. The cow consists of an open-ended test tube with various layers of alumina and specially treated glass through which the parent substance is filtered. In the case of a parent such as molybdenum-99 (half-life: 2.8 days), technetium-99m (half-life: 6 hours) is produced, and it accumulates at the bottom of the tube (the cow's udder). The milked technetium can therefore be created only moments before...
...that it wouldn't, the Kaisers have since confined their automaking to one of the most durable vehicles ever produced: the limited-appeal Jeep. Now, Kaiser Jeep Corp. is cautiously looking to bigger markets. This month it unveils a jazzy new line that Edgar, as president of the parent Kaiser Industries Corp., hopes will put the Jeep more squarely into the black and out onto the nation's highways...
...different it must be," muses Adam Appleby as his day begins, "the life of an ordinary, non-Catholic parent, free to decide-actually to decide, in calm confidence-whether or not to have a child." But the Roman Catholic Church, to which the Applebys adhere, and the rhythm method, to whose uncertain discipline they reluctantly submit, allow no such latitude. Their first child arrived nine months after the wedding, followed, at similar intervals, by two more. And now, dabbing queasily at the breakfast bacon, Adam's wife congeals his spirit with the announcement that they may have lost another...
...work on telephone circuits. He later went to the Long Lines Department, dealt with local problems as chief engineer for Illinois Bell Telephone, got manufacturing experience as president of Western Electric, and learned finance and administration as a vice president, vice chairman and finally president of the parent company...
...head of their editorial operations. The Times sent over Foreign News Editor Sydney Gruson, 50, and gave him far more freedom of action than any of his predecessors had enjoyed. The changes show already. No longer is the overseas Times a truncated version of its New York parent. Its makeup reflects a new concern for news from all over Europe; feature stories from home are reprinted to attract tourist and expatriate alike. And Paris, which is, after all, the paper's home base, is getting much more attention. "We have not covered Paris as it should be covered," Gruson...