Word: proceeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...means "the dead man's throttle." If an engineer dies at the controls, his pressure on a foot pedal or hand lever is released, and the train automatically goes into an emergency stop. Fail Safe at SAC means that SAC bomber crews, launched in an alert, do not proceed toward their preassigned target beyond a preassigned coordinate point without a coded follow-up command. Only beyond the Fail Safe point are SAC crews permitted even to arm their nuclear weapons...
...plan will permit Honors candidates to choose from a number of specific seminars. After finishing the work in one of these courses, however, the student will proceed under distribution requirements to other seminars covering different material...
...thought the situation was hopeless until I read: "Tax reduction is a rather irrevocable step. Once taxes are reduced, it will be difficult to raise them again." Let's proceed with tax reduction immediately...
...population increase in the United States remains the same, 3,000 physicians yearly and about twenty-five new medical schools will be needed in the next fifteen years. A suggested remedy is increasing the number of cooperative plans under which students attend two years at a regular university and proceed to more advanced schools, like Harvard...
Across the Pacific, the Russo-Japanese War exploded in 1904. T.R. later wrote an old friend that he had notified France and Germany "in the most polite and discreet fashion" not to combine against Japan, or the U.S. would "proceed to whatever length necessary." Later Japan began to thrash Russia. T.R., determined to balance the power of Japan, moved in secrecy and with great skill through intermediaries in Europe to signify a U.S. desire to mediate, and to douse the world powder keg altogether...