Word: placement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McNamara has immensely speeded up the building and placement of nuclear-armed missiles in hardened sites and elusive submarines, where they can survive an enemy attack and hit back. The first 30 fast-firing, solid-fueled Minuteman missiles are now operational, a year ahead of schedule, in protected underground silos in Montana. By 1966 some 950 will be ready to fire. Nine Polaris submarines, each carrying 16 missiles that can be fired from beneath the sea and reach the Soviet heartland, now patrol the North Atlantic. By 1966 there will be at least 30 Polaris subs. The U.S., with...
Furthermore, King's office is responsible for guidance rather than job placement. Consequently, a program to provide students with jobs would not strictly be his responsibility...
Squirming Target. The best way for the doctor to find the safe region, says Dr. Hanson, is to draw an imaginary diagonal line from a ridge on top of the hipbone to the top of the thighbone. Then he aims above and outside this line. This sort of careful placement rules out the fast injection. It also rules out the common practice of having a woman patient lean over a table and pull up her underclothes with one hand: that way, she exposes only the lower part of the buttock, where an injection may be dangerous...
...Angeles County, voters passed a $17 million bond issue to build facilities "for the detention, training or custodial placement of juveniles." After turning down a school bond proposal last year, Cleveland calmly reversed itself and approved, by better than 2 to 1, a ten-year, $50 million building program. Explained George Theobald, assistant superintendent of Cleveland elementary schools: "I think the constant dinning in newspapers and magazines on problems of American education and our self-criticism are beginning to pay off. People are realizing more and more that we're in a struggle for survival...
Radcliffe is considering joining the Committee at the present time. However, because of sufficient alumnae contacts in Washington, Radcliffe does not wish to subscribe to the Committee's job placement service...