Word: recasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Siegel's discovery poses a fascinating possibility that has long intrigued other scientists. The earth's once ammonia-and methane-rich atmosphere has since been recast through the release of subterranean gases and the evolution of oxygen-producing photosynthetic plants. Siegel believes that the Kakabekia-like organism has survived for "a billion years or more" by living on ammonia from the breakdown of proteins in earth. Citing spectroscopic analyses of Jupiter, which indicate that its atmosphere still contains large amounts of ammonia, Siegel theorizes that space explorers on Jupiter may some day meet living relatives of his discovery...
Thus such a subversive ditty as Sandy Shaw's Puppet on a String has been recast in Hungary as Paprika Puppet; the Spotniks' Walking Back to Happiness has become an ode to the joys of a country cottage, one of the most coveted status symbols among crowded Czech city dwellers. "The main problem with American lyrics is that they are too gushy for our listeners," says one member of the Text Writers' Circle, which supervises all song translations in Czechoslovakia. "Under our system we are conditioned to be less sentimental...
...notion of waste also grows from the Puritan belief that negligent use of material things is sinful. "Waste not, want not," saith the preacher, and the phrase still echoes in the minds of older Americans not too far removed from the time when wax drippings were conserved to recast into new candles, or when boys made pocket money by straightening out bent nails...
Brown, in consequence, has recast his campaign tactics, no longer harps on the charge that Reagan is a right-wing extremist. Instead, the Governor is emphasizing Reagan's lack of administrative experience. Reagan, in turn, is convinced that Californians are simply bored with Brown's bland, avuncular personality and is now campaigning cautiously on the assumption, as one of his top advisers puts it, that "we're ahead -let's not blow...
When Johnson failed to reappoint conservative C. Canby Balderston to the seven-man board, there was some thought that he might recast the Federal Reserve to swing it toward looser credit. Last week, however, the President appointed Assistant Commerce Secretary Andrew F. Brimmer, the board's first Negro member, who seems unlikely to change its apparent inclination toward restriction. Brimmer, 39, a Harvard Ph.D., is a onetime economist at the New York Federal Reserve Bank and is known as cautious and moderate in money matters...