Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late, however, things have begun to change. In his last months as Prime Minister, Lai Bahadur Shastri took a few steps toward a freer economy. The trend has built up steam under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi...
...diethylamine (a volatile liquid used in processes like vulcanizing). The two batches, cooled to freezing and stirred together, result in a solution that contains LSD. The trick is to extract the LSD from the solution. This can be done with the help of chloroform, benzine, a vacuum evaporator or steam bath, and a glass gadget known as a chromatographic column (available in any chemistry supply shop...
...week the Labor Department reported that unemployment jumped sharply in May, rising from 3.7% to 4% of the nation's work force. Bad news? Well, maybe not. The increase was welcomed in many quarters because it indicated another release valve on the nation's inflationary head of steam. Beyond that, closer inspection of statistics showed that the rise was expectable and explainable...
...while not entirely discounted, is pretty well ruled out by military men; the attacker could not himself escape destruction. Says Herman Kahn, the physicist and Government consultant who popularized the term "escalation": "Barring a blowup in Eastern Europe, there will be no confrontation with the Soviets for years. The steam has gone out of their world revolution...
...dream of transforming coal into cheaply transportable electrical energy right at the mine mouth has fired engineering imaginations for years. But rare is the mine located near enough to a water supply for feeding a steam turbine to turn a generator, and many are the low-grade deposits that have remained untapped because it has become too expensive to mine the coal and ship it to distant markets. Now the U.S. Department of the Interior has made a modest $680,500 bet that Physicist Meredith Gourdine, 36, has found a promising answer to the dilemma...