Word: scoping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tips, cables string out to suspend a tangle of girders over the center of the bowl. The complete contraption looks like the product of some errant giant playing with an outsize Erector set. But at its dedication in the hills south of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, last week, the great scope was tuned and ready-a sharp and farseeing eye focused on the farthest reaches of the universe...
...electrified layers in the earth's upper atmosphere by shooting enormously powerful radar pulses through them and listening for faint echoes. Since those electrified layers control long-distance radio communication and are involved in attempts to devise some defense against ballistic missiles, almost any information gathered by the scope promises to be worth the price...
...face this problem, they can easily remedy it. Adjusting personnel and finances to add extra hours of chasing will not prove too difficult. Additional chasers can be found. Hiring a capable supervisor may present more of a challenge, but surely administrators capable of running a library of Widener's scope can manage this task...
...Scope to be Enlarged...
...scope of the project will be enlarged every year in order to produce a "significant behavior change." The original children will continue in the program while a new group of fourth-graders will be started each year...