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Word: reflecter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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When a missile plunges into ZAR's range, it will reflect radar pulses back to Kwajalein. Waiting to detect them is a 1,400 ton Luneberg lens, an assembly of foamed plastic cubes containing metal threads, which will concentrate the reflected radar energy like a magnifying glass. The lens rotates in time with ZAR on a massive thrust bearing, and is housed in a plastic sphere 100 ft. in diameter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Zeus on Kwajalein | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...cost when the market expands and competitors enter the field. The index usually does not record new products until their prices level off, and then possibly rise a bit as a result of increasing public demand. If new products were entered earlier, the argument goes, they would better reflect the eventual drop in prices, tend to pull the whole index average downward. Delaying their listing, say the economists, permits the index to rise artificially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indicators: The Upward Bias | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

...even more disconcerting to us that an article such as yesterday's, part of an announced series, and therefore not written in haste, must have passed the scrutiny of several members of the staff. For this reason we trust that the retraction which must certainly appear will reflect not only Mr. Lottman's, but the CRIMSON's chagrin as well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO THE DEFENSE | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

...quotation to which I have referred and the statement issued by the General Electric Co. do not properly reflect the facts on the basis of which President Kennedy has recommended cancellation of the develop ment of the nuclear-powered military aircraft. I hope you will present to your readers the full story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 5, 1961 | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...Colbert won little sympathy from the audience. Newberg's selection as president "doesn't reflect very well on your judgment, sir," said a stockholder from Chicago. "Don't you think it's time to sweep clean?" To a rumble of boos, Colbert answered: "Mr. Newberg concealed his interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bad Day for Tex | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

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