Word: roading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus it is all the more urgent that we exploit to the utmost the marvelous tools that space technology has already given us. Even now, few Americans realize that the skills, materials and instruments their engineers devised on the road to the moon have paid for themselves many times over, both in hard cash and in human welfare...
...Seyyed Mostafa al Moussavi, had six children, the youngest of whom was Ruhollah, which in Farsi means Sign of God. A few months after Ruhollah's birth-for which one plausible date is May 17, 1900-his father was murdered on the road between Khomein and Arak as he set out on a pilgrimage to the Shi'a holy city of Najaf in Iraq. In later years there have been stories circulated that Mostafa's death was somehow caused by Reza Shah, father of the recently exiled Emperor. In fact, Reza was only about 22 years...
America's tenth largest industrial company is like an old gas guzzler hurtling along the dangerous edge of a cliff, and in this difficult year the road is trickier than usual. Chrysler Corp., long plagued by uncompetitive products and a lack of cash, is expected to follow its first quarter $53.8 million loss with a second quarter deficit that could come close to $200 million. The company may end the year with a loss of more than $400 million, double last year's $204.6 million deficit. Chairman John Riccardo has made a dozen trips to Washington since...
...keep any crew members from knowing that the Essex was heading toward Cuba to watch over the invasion, no detailed maps of the island were available. The carrier's frustrated flyers picked out towns and roads by the lines on a tattered Esso road map. Forbidden to fire, they could only watch helplessly as Castro's jets strafed the invaders and gunned down the ponderous B-26 bombers flown by American and Cuban-exile pilots...
Some imperfections remain. Cooder, crazy about the sound, nevertheless reports that the digital console was mechanically ornery. Moreover, digital's full potential is muffled because recordings must still be transferred to conventional analog records. Playback equipment is a way down the road-maybe five years, maybe a little longer. Before the next decade is too far along, however, the audiophile down the block with all the latest equipment may be able to whip out a record smaller than a conventional 45 and put it on a machine that will scan its data with a laser. The sound will produce...