Word: steps
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...mixture of all colors, and thus of many different wave lengths traveling in divergent directions, laser light is what scientists call "coherent." It emerges from the rod in rays that are parallel; it is all of the same wave length, and it is all in phase or in step, each ray reinforcing the others, like oarsmen in a superbly trained crew...
...time," insisted Negotiator Cyrus Vance, repeating the U.S. appeal to Hanoi for a reciprocal gesture of de-escalation but couching it in the broadest terms to date. "This could be done de facto," said Vance. "It could be done by some indication, either directly or indirectly, that such a step is being taken." Hanoi's delegates refused to accept that gambit, but Radio Hanoi implicitly met a longstanding U.S. demand that North Viet Nam acknowledge the presence of its troops south of the Demilitarized Zone. Said a broadcast People's Army statement monitored in Hong Kong: "The peoples...
During the European Economic Community's eleven years of existence, no member has poured more vinegar into the wine than France. Last week, as the Common Market prepared to take the historic step of eliminating all remaining internal tariff barriers, the French acted according to form. Faced with a worsening balance of payments problem, Charles de Gaulle's government marred the milestone by announcing a protectionist package of import quotas and export subsidies...
Although the unions demand a 9% pay increase as against the railroads' offer of 3%, the heart of the dispute involves a more basic issue. The unions have flatly rejected management's effort to link wage increases to productivity agreements-a step Britain's Labor government calls essential to revive the country's sick economy. Similar labor strife has poisoned industrial relations across the U.K. Most of the jet fleet of British Overseas Airways Corp. lay idle at Heathrow Airport last week because of a strike by 1,050 pilots, who demand that their salaries...
...practical preliminary step toward planetary voyages, suggested Spacecraft Center Director Robert R. Gilruth, would be to orbit a giant, cigar-shaped capsule around the earth in the mid-1970s. The big space station, said Gilruth, would be 615 ft. long, carry a crew of 100, and rotate end-over-end 31 times a minute to create an artificial gravity for those on board. Freed from the earth's atmosphere, astronomers on the station could peer through telescopes for an undistorted view of the destination of future space trips. How would this ambitious multimillion-dollar project be financed? An idea...