Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to the personnel shuffle, McKinney said, the GSAS is currently reviewing all administrative functions of the newly combined office, to find ways to "smooth out the flow of paper work...
...bearing. In the Rolair-designed system at the Aloha Stadium, 416 such air bearings are positioned under the four movable stands. They are linked by pipe to three large compressors. When the compressors are turned on, the bearings lift the stands up about .004 in. above a smooth concrete surface. That is enough to reduce friction sufficiently so that the stands can be moved along by hydraulic jacks a distance of 180 ft. in only 20 or 25 minutes...
Last week in efforts to smooth out the roller coaster and placate critics. President Ford moved to regulate future U.S.-Russian grain deals. He dispatched a high-level negotiating team to Moscow to try to work out stable, long-term grain purchase agreements; the group is headed by Charles Robinson, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. To allow time for the negotiations, Ford also extended for a month, until Oct. 15, the moratorium imposed last month on additional grain sales by Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz...
Most Motivated. At Nottingham, that was practically lilliputian compared to most of the competition. The winning East Germans weighed in at an average of 20 lbs. heavier, but the Americans managed to outstroke eight other muscular boats with a combination of will and Parker's smooth technique. "I'd have to say these girls are among the most motivated athletes I have ever met," said the coach. They were also the first Parker crew ever to race with red roses tied to their shoelaces...
...used the simple, emblematic formats of ad layout-a disk, a heart, striped bands-but dissolved them in a feathery, airy film of brush strokes. Then he became interested in packages. Again, packaging was not iconic; it was the most abstract way of putting a product over, smooth and low-keyed, with a regular boxy shape. Paintings like Piano (1963) thrust out from the wall, the sloping canvas sides of the built box contradicted by the smaller fake boxes painted on it in Smith's cursive, soft handwriting, like a festive ziggurat tottering off-balance...