Word: result
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...north. Thus, a rocket fired in Guiana can lift about 24% more payload with the same thrust than one fired at Cape Kennedy. Moreover, Guiana has a 120° stretch of open water north and east of it that is ideal for polar-orbit launchings. As a result, France, forced out of its former space station in the Algerian desert two years ago, is bringing French Guiana into the space age with a $102 million investment in launch pads and their support complexes...
...different ways." College authorities seldom try to direct the mores of the students nowadays, but that is not so much a sign of new permissiveness as it is a continuation of the old policy of treating undergraduates as responsible adults capable of thinking for themselves. As a result, bitter confrontations have been...
...even anticipated their premature death." The parents of 14 children tried to shield them from the diagnosis, yet eleven of these children indicated their sense of impending death. Only two teen-agers were told that they had leukemia and that there was no known cure for it. As a result of frank discussions, both their families reported "a more meaningful relationship with their child...
...result was what the French call a dialogue des sourds (dialogue of the deaf), a meeting marked by arm waving, table thumping-and little, if any, progress. Union and government negotiators could not even agree on what to talk about, a divergence that was hardly surprising in a country where workers and management traditionally view each other as implacable enemies...
...Washington's most powerful but least understood agencies; it treasures its independence from President, political parties and pressure groups. Martin and the six other governors of the Federal Reserve manipulate the levers that control the nation's money supply and interest rates. Today, as a result of their actions, money is tight and costlier to borrow than at any time since the Civil War. To their distaste, bankers have to turn down customers seeking loans; businessmen have to put off some projects because credit is so expensive; brokers watch helplessly as investors shift out of stocks into high...