Word: quadrantal
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...areas of the globe. In this sense it faces an infinitely harder task than any imperial power because it cannot, and does not want to, employ imperialist weapons. The military reach of the U.S. across the world is awesome -neither capital nor continent, neither jungle nor village, and no quadrant of the sky is beyond the range of its missiles or its reconnaissance planes. And yet in a nuclear age, the weapons are there mostly in order not to be used, except in crucial self-defense. The most immediate tool of U.S. policy around the world remains money-money springing...
...examine her abdomen," Dr. Gerisch reports in the Harper Hospital Bulletin, "she drew up her legs and started to laugh, even before I touched her. Her mother said their pediatrician had never been able to examine her abdomen. I said, 'Put your right hand there' (right upper quadrant). 'Does that tickle?' She said no. I said, 'Put your hand down there' (right lower quadrant). 'Does that tickle?' She said no. Then I placed my hand on top of her hand, and asked whether it tickled, and she said no. I then said...
...confused with the whole buttock, which has a lot of fatty tissue lower down. Doctors have a traditional trick for picking the place for the needle. They draw two imaginary lines, one vertical and one horizontal, on the buttock (see diagram) and make the injection into the upper, outer quadrant. But this is risky, says Dr. Hanson, because people are not all built alike, and if the needle goes in a little too close to the midline of the body, it may hit the sciatic nerve...
That's the proof of our market." Men Without Women. Scholarly as it generally is, Atlas is not above playing up to American self-consciousness with such cover enticements as "How They See Us in Japan, Barbados, Peru, Switzerland, Holland." Its range of articles is infinite -from a Quadrant magazine discussion of "Men Without Women in Australia" (by an agonized Czech who lives in Sydney) to a Russian general's treatise on the probable effects of thermonuclear war, reprinted from a Soviet scientific journal. Each issue carries a full bouquet of literary pieces and book reviews, dominated...
Nowhere has the drive to rehabilitate Washington achieved more remarkable results than in the city's Southwest quadrant, from Capitol Hill to the Waterfront. The area was long a fetid slum (through it once ran bawdy old Four-and-a-Half Street, the capital's last centralized red-light district). Now the builders have cut a 550-acre swath through Southwest Washington. Some 4,657 families, most of them Negro, have been relocated. Beside NASA's new edifice, three other Federal Office Buildings are rising on Independence Avenue, and two more will be built...