Word: scale
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...striking power and the American people (last week a mock atomic attack on Denver left 47,000 assumed dead). "If SAC is to remain an effective deterrent, it must be reasonably secure against enemy attack on its bases," said the No. 1 U.S. airman, General Nathan Twining. "One grand-scale atomic blow by the Soviets on our industrial and population centers could be decisive...
...determines such things as 1) how much a person can borrow, 2) whether he can get a mortgage on his house and how much it will cost him, and 3) whether he will get or keep a job. Last week a joint committee of Congress held the first full-scale hearing on the Administration's fiscal policy...
...past two years," wrote Martin, "there have been about ten H-bomb explosions, each of them equivalent to from 1,000 to 2,500 A-bombs of the type used at Hiroshima. Their effects are on a scale involving an appreciable fraction of the planet. Certain effects on the atmosphere may upset the natural conditions to which life has become adapted...
...under the school's present system, each student is ranked numerically according to his class standing, from one to about 500. The grade distinctions between 62 and 70 on exams--in the large C group--are largely artificial. So a difference of no more than one point in this scale can lead to unjustified distinctions in class standing. There is actually a negligible variance between number 175 and number 250 in the class. When employers, however, examine class records, they often assume that individual differences in this particular group equal the differences in the students ranking between...
...full of plans, but they have yet to undergo a purification by budget. Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, a hard man with a dollar and a weighty man in the Cabinet, is against any large-scale foreign spending; Banker Dodge thinks Harold Stassen's plans are dangerously dreamy. The foreign-aid enthusiasts think Humphrey and Dodge are dangerously unimaginative. But despite individual differences, the Cabinet is unanimous in its belief that the character of the cold war is changing, and that the U.S. urgently needs to reshape its foreign policy. The objective is to shift the emphasis...