Word: set
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often lectured and written on the subject. After visiting various federal nuclear facilities with the cooperation of the U.S. Government, he wrote an article, illustrated with diagrams, that tells how to build the most powerful weapon known to man: the H-bomb. Last week the article itself set off an explosion...
...should she act so bizarrely? Defense Attorney William Paul argued last week that she was emotionally unstable and possibly had been affected by the use of tranquilizers. Paul said she had become deeply involved in a bitter fight between her union and the company, and charged that she had set out to prove that the plant was dangerous by making herself seriously ill. She was, he suggested, kinky...
...movie like this caused such trouble? One reason may be, of course, that it is so stylized. Violence in films and TV has become so common that most audiences are inured to it. Hill's rendering may strike the deeper chords of instinct; the film does set audiences cheering in sympathy for the Warriors' run for freedom...
That was ten years before Radcliffe College set up shop for the first time, a stone's throw from Harvard Square. Harvard Medical School Professor Edward Clarke proved how right Eliot was by warning, in Sex in Education, a treatise typical of the time, that women, endowed by nature with smaller brains and more delicate physiques than men, could be seriously injured if exposed to the stress of higher education...
Here, too, Washington regulators are putting up roadblocks even though, ironically, the diesel meets all present emission standards. Unlike conventional engines, diesels give off tiny specks of soot known as particulates. In January the Environmental Protection Agency proposed that a limit on diesel particulates be set at 0.2 grams per mile (g.p.m.). The diesel on GM's 350 Oldsmobile now throws off 0.8 g.p.m., and nobody in Detroit knows how to reduce that level in full-size cars without losing power. The agency announced that it will set a final standard later this year after hearing from the auto...