Word: shear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weather while playing out an unfamiliar course, described as "brutal" by Alexander. Tomorrow will feature clear skies, balmy breezes, and the Crimson Shepherd Plan. This last part of the three-pronged victory formula calls for every Harvard player to beat his URI opponent by two strokes, which should effectively shear the Rams of any Palo Alto playoff delusions they may have entertained...
...done in this world is almost without limits, and so is the robot's potential ability to do it. In the field of farming and food processing, for example, Unimation has been asked to design a robot that can pluck chickens. Australian technicians are already testing robots to shear sheep. One machine first stuns the animal with an electric shock, then closes in with its shears. Clipping the back and sides is not too hard, but the technicians still report "significant difficulties" in finishing up the neck and head. In Japan, Mitsubishi has devised a robot that can visually...
...national Five-Year Plan. The State Planning Committee (GOSPLAN) allocates all investment capital, sets every price and production goal and determines all foreign trade. The plan, which sets policy for some 350,000 enterprises, affects every Soviet citizen. Lawyers must try their quota of cases, barbers must shear so many heads and taxi drivers must log so many miles. The plan determines the amount of raw materials a plant will receive and the number of workers it is assigned; fulfilling the plan's quotas is the only economic measuring stick...