Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affect the life of every person in Nepal. They shelter the country from icy Tibetan blasts in the winter and protect it from the severity of the monsoon in summer. Not only do they contribute a large part to the extraordinary beauty of this small kingdom, but they also shape many of the religious beliefs of the Nepalese...
...disguise their drilling rigs as tall buildings. In the future, Congress and the companies will certainly be debating the charge that the industry could have found and pumped more oil. Meanwhile, whatever their specific merits, the Jackson and Stevenson bills will help give some shape to the growing debate over how, and how far, Government power should be used to help the U.S. move toward its goal of energy independence...
...sputtering bravely in the dark ness. It was made by Boston's WGBH, which used two field producers, an Egyptian newsman and an Israeli tele vision journalist. They could not visit each other's homelands, but they worked together closely, if often argumentatively, in neutral Switzerland to shape each program. The series is now being offered all over the Middle East. Though no nation has accepted it yet, Israel, Jordan and Egypt have expressed interest in it. One cannot help believing that if this moderate, moderating voice could be heard in the area it so affectingly reports...
Cultural Schlock. If there is a single line that divides the work of Europeans from that of U.S. designers, it is the matter of styling. "A lot of people at first thought that industrial design dealt with superficial aesthetical things, with shape," says Professor Herbert Lindinger of the Technical University of Hannover. "We European designers have been resentful of industrial strategies that have nothing to do with real needs, but with manipulated needs, and we are against the kind of styling that is merely an instrument to increase output and sales...
...into a heavier one. The reaction releases considerably more energy than fission. Starting the chain reaction that causes fission (Abomb) explosions and powers today's nuclear reactors is relatively easy; basically, all that is required is the bringing together of enough fissionable uranium or plutonium in the right shape. The neutrons emitted by these naturally radioactive elements then begin the self-sustaining chain reaction...