Word: reductionisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Continuing its program of manned space exploration, NASA also made ingenious use of castoff Apollo hardware to create Skylab. Despite a troubled beginning and now its embarrassing demise, the giant space station represented another great leap. In 1973, three teams of astronauts occupied the station in rapid succession, one remaining...
The sociologists have no easy answer to violence in the American family. While they applaud such moves as the opening of shelters for battered wives and the establishment of a National Center for Child Abuse and Neglect, they believe that there must be a more basic attack on violence, including...
The mileage competition shows that there is enormous room for improvement in auto efficiency. Last week, the Transportation Department rejected a petition by U.S. automakers for a reduction in federal mileage standards. This means that carmakers must boost average mileage of this year's 19-m.p.g. minimum to 26...
Carter was welcomed at the airport by a trumpet fanfare followed by almost complete silence as he shook hands with his official host, President Rudolf Kirchschläger. "We have no right and no wish to influence your deliberations," said Kirchschläger, "but we hope and we wish and we trust...
The heating oil subsidy also undermined the U.S.'s pleas for unity among the oil importing nations. Last week Energy Secretary James Schlesinger said that the U.S. has met its pledge to the 20-nation International Energy Agency in Paris to cut consumption of petroleum by 1 million bbl...