Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about $3,000 and can be operated along with earphones and a parabolic reflector or "dish" that can pick up normal speech up to 800 yds. away in an open space or in a room across a noisy street. The Starlight Viewer amplifies light 50,000 times and is perfect for nighttime surveillance; the intensifier needs some light but produces more sharply detailed photographs...
...danger of widespread contamination in a densely populated area was minimal and wanted to cooperate in calming any public concern. Yet intelligence officials in both nations knew that Cosmos 954 was a rare and sophisticated Soviet bird designed to track deep-running American nuclear submarines. Should the Soviets perfect their surveillance methods, they might be able to track all U.S. subs, including the Trident when it becomes operational in 1981. Thus the intense search that was immediately mounted by the U.S. and Canada for remnants of Cosmos 954 was almost as much a pursuit of intelligence fallout as of radiation...
...Crimson's next scoring binge came when Fine dropped a layup and then laced a picture-perfect alley-oop pass to Booker to maintain the 11-point...
Number three--Ned Bacon vs. Gary Fogler: A couple of combat-experienced veterans, both have improved this season and moved up the ladder significantly. Bacon's near-perfect college record has been marred by two tough losses against Princeton...
...view of Addie's credentials. His career earned-run average of 1.88 is the second lowest of all time. In 1907 he won 27 games while losing only ten. His best season was the following year, when he won 24 while compiling a 1.16 ERA and twirling a perfect game against the White Sox on October...