Word: setups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nuclear test series supplied little news last week. Neither diplomatic policy nor the need for military secrecy completely explained the comparative silence. There was, in fact, little to be told. Test bombs are not exploded merely to see if they will work or to admire the bang. The instrumental setup is enormously complicated, with seismographs, barographs, radiation detectors, photocells, and many more subtle instruments spread over hundreds of miles of sea, air and land. Information and analysis come slowly...
...same time, though, Mrs. Bunting said that Radcliffe has reasons for keeping its separate status. "One just doesn't ignore history or our legal setup--endowments are made out to us as Radcliffe College. But more than that, planning the best kind of education for women raises different problems than planning...
...fact, Nim is more of a trap than a game. The canny con man, with all the possible combinations locked in his head, graciously allows his victim to go first (see diagram). Since Nim's starting setup (7-5-3-1) is a winning combination itself, whoever tampers with it (i.e., the player who makes the first move) is doomed. But even if the wily match-sharp, out of courtesy or cunning, should agree to move first in an occasional game, he can still save the day by resorting to the memorized combinations as soon as the proper situation...
Autocrat Lovett shaped Rice for 34 years, gave way in 1946 to an impressive successor, Caltech Physicist William V. Houston (pronounced How-ston v. the city of Hew-ston). No backslapping money raiser, Researcher Houston had a dream financial setup going for him. Though it may some day require students to pay tuition, Rice grows fatter on oil income by the year. It never even badgers alumni for cash. When emergencies arise, Rice simply turns to its rich friends and trustees...
...years, the South Viet Nam government has angrily called the I.C.C.'s attention to 700 documented items of Communist subversion and sabotage. Not one has been investigated. It is probably just as well, because, under the terms of the hastily written Geneva accord, the I.C.C. is a troika setup, with each of the three members holding a vote; it functions as a judiciary body without executive or police powers. Receiving a complaint of Red violations, the I.C.C. can only ask the government of Communist North Viet Nam if the allegation is true. When the Reds deny the charge...