Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dentist's chair. Voting on 85-year-old Konrad Adenauer's re-election to a fourth term as West Germany's Chancellor, no fewer than 26 of 241 Christian Democrats present showed their distaste for their party leader by dropping blank white cards into the plastic ballot box. When all the ballots were counted, der Alte had squeaked through with only eight more votes than the required majority of 250. Many delegates ostentatiously sat on their hands, and Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, who had been cruelly punished by Adenauer for his own feeble bid for the chancellorship...
...times before the funeral altar will be streamlined down to a single bow. Newly forbidden is the use of wooden, disposable chopsticks in Korea's 11,676 restaurants and teahouses-the government wants to conserve the country's dwindling timber reserves; instead, the use and reuse of plastic chopsticks is urged...
Trouble is that plastic chopsticks, austerity weddings and import restrictions cannot cure South Korea's most deep-rooted troubles: it is overpopulated, under-industrialized, short on natural resources, but has an overabundance of sapping responsibilities, such as the need to keep a standing army of 600,000 for a population of 25 million...
Speakers and microphones either convert air motion into electrical signal or electrical signal into air motion. A phonograph cartridge has the related but somewhat different task of converting wiggles in plastic into electrical signals approximating those originally made by the recoring engineer's mikes. While neither a speaker nor a microphone can harm the air it contacts in its attention to its duty, a cartridge can wreak havoc on its medium, the plastic of your records. Clearly, your choice of a cartridge will have a strong bearing on the satisfaction you receive from your home music system. The immediate factor...
...THOUSANDTHS of an inch. And, most important of all, the whole needle and needle-arm assembly must be perfectly free to trace grooves as fine as 2,000 vibrations per inch (our math upon request); must be perfectly free from resonances in the range of frequencies possible in the plastic; must be mounted in such a way that it remains perfectly centered at the resting point, with relation magnet to coils...