Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Confidence. To Tommy Kono, the secret lies in the power of positive thinking. "Successful weight lifting is not in the body," says Kono. "It's in the mind. You have to strengthen your mind to shut out everything-the man with the camera, the laugh or cough in the audience. You can lift as much as you believe you can. Your body can do what you will...
...mailed its offer to B. & O. stockholders, New York Central President Alfred Perlman jumped into action. He appealed to the Interstate Commerce Commission to con duct a study to establish new ground rules for Eastern rail mergers, hoping thus to block the other roads moves until he can strengthen his own position. He also said he wants to make an offer to B.&O. stockholders for 50% of the road's stock...
...future Pennsy acquisition of the merged roads would be an obvious move to strengthen the Pennsy empire in the midst of the territory of the Central, the C. & O. and the B.& O. It would give the Pennsy such a huge advantage that the Central would find it hard to compete...
...adopting a policy of trying to strengthen middle-sized regional trunk lines, CAB awarded them long hauls already amply served by the major lines. Today seven markets are served by five or more airlines; in 1955 there were none. Sometimes, as in the case of Delta and Braniff airlines, the plan worked. Often everyone got hurt. Says American Airlines President C. R. Smith: "Competition is good. It becomes bad when it is wasteful and there is insufficient business to provide a profit even for the most efficient...
After as little as one week, the femurs (leg bones) of young mice get rounder in cross section than normal femurs. Dr. Wunder believes that this change is an adaptation to strengthen the bone and allow it to support the abnormal weight of the high-G mouse. Chickens react in somewhat the same way: Dr. Alfred Smith of the University of California has found that when they are centrifuged, the anti-gravity muscles of their drumsticks grow to as much as seven times normal. But chickens are not so successful as mice at high-G reproduction. They try-but tend...