Word: sys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charging current is drastically increased in order to save time. The result is a ruined battery. But by following a series of strong charging pulses with a brief reversal of current, the McCulloch engineers found that they could dissipate the accumulated gases and successfully recharge the battery. The sys tem, says a McCulloch spokesman, is comparable to the way a mother interrupts her infant's feeding with burping to get rid of gas in the baby's stomach...
Almost everyone now agrees that the welfare system is a mess, though few agree on what should be done. The Ad ministration is now preparing reforms of the welfare sys tem, and may eventually work toward abolishing it - re placing it with an evenhanded guaranteed annual wage or family allowance that would clearly help the lower middle class as well as the poor. White workers, however, would have to be persuaded that such an allowance did not represent simply another something-for-nothing scheme...
...that universities had been slow to respond to the concerns of students--treating them instead as children. He traced his reaction to the origins of the American university sys- tem--originally an outgrowth of secondary schools--and to an inherent American attitude towards a student: "Because he's not earning his living, he sorely lacks judgement...
...example, astronomers concluded from wobbles in the path of Sirius that the bright star was accompanied through space by a star too faint to be seen from earth. The same technique has been used to establish that several other apparently single stars are actually members of a binary sys tem; they have stellar companions that are invisible from the earth...
...McNamara finally presented two alternative schemes, one involving an investment of $12.2 billion and an other costing $21.7 billion. The less ex pensive approach might reduce the death toll to 40 million (from an estimated high of 120 million). The second sys tem might lower fatalities to 30 million. Yet these calculations were essentially academic numbers games based on constantly changing realities. They presumed a static Russian defensive capability as it existed in 1967. McNamara himself pointed out the big drawback: "We can be certain that the Soviets will react to offset the advantage we would hope to gain...