Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voting switch in a subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee came from Delaware Republican Pierre S. Du Pont. After voting earlier against aid, he provided the majority vote for a compromise package of $82.5 million spread over 90 days and tied to monthly reports by Ford on progress in seeking a negotiated settlement. All military aid would end June 30. Du Pont, 40, argued that this would be more useful in achieving peace than an abrupt cutoff of help...
...prescribed corrective shoes to help relieve the condition. But new methods of detection and treatment have now greatly improved the prospects of scoliosis victims. A major advance has been the development of mass-testing procedures for use in the schools. Delaware, through a program involving the Alfred I. du Pont Institute and the state board of health, routinely checks schoolchildren with a simple test: the youngsters are asked to bend at the waist and touch their knees with their fingertips; a curvature will usually produce a visible fullness on one side of the rib cage or the other. In most...
...Amex is currently handling options trading in the shares of 13 companies, among them Du Pont, Union Carbide and U.S. Steel; it plans to increase its list to 20 stocks before long. Early investor interest was high, and Amex officials hope to do at least as well with options as the Chicago Board Options Exchange. C.B.O.E. members now collect commissions on an average daily volume of 40,000 option sales. Partly as a result, the price of seats on the C.B.O.E. has jumped from $10,000 to $40,000 in just 21 months...
Scientists long suspected that polymers-macromolecules made up of chains of smaller molecules-might be custom-tailored to create an almost infinite variety of materials. Flory, who began his work 40 years ago as a member of the Du Pont research team that developed nylon, showed the way. He devised methods of analyzing and studying polymers that made it possible to develop new plastics and other synthetics on a systematic basis. He also found that there is a specific temperature (now known as the Flory temperature) at which each polymer exists in an ideal state for study of its properties...
...Brimmer is regarded as one of the top economists in the nation. The first black man on the Federal Reserve Board and, as of this week, the first on the Du Pont board of directors, Brimmer comes back to Harvard this month--17 years after he received his Ph.D at the Business School--to assume the post of Carroll Ford Visiting Professor of Business Administration...