Word: systemized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forty-two years ago, the city of New York conducted its last election under the voting system known as proportional representation...
...city of Cincinnati, Ohio scrapped the innovative voting system a few years later. As did the city of Worcester, Mass. In fact, since the 1940s, every American city that has adopted the highly-touted system for ensuring minority representation has repealed...
...issue is of utmost importance to the U.S. armed forces. Virtually all American warplanes use radar, and many costly weapons systems, from the Navy's Aegis system to the Army's Patriot missile, are heavily reliant on the technology. By one estimate, about a quarter of U.S. military investment is radar related. If heavy use of radar becomes questionable, the Pentagon will have to rethink its whole strategy and allocation of resources...
...radio detection and ranging) applications in the U.S. stemmed from the accidental discovery in 1922 that a ship moving between a radio transmitter and receiver interfered with the signals. The technology came into its own in World War II, when it progressed rapidly from a crude early-warning system barely able to locate ships and aircraft to a sophisticated electronic eye that can spot the periscope of a submerged submarine. Radar works because electronic signals bounce off objects, just as a voice is reflected by walls or buildings. Radar transmits radio waves and "listens" for an echo. The direction...
...televangelist draws a stiff 45-year prison term, while the average American murderer gets only 20 years. Is the U.S. sentencing system fair or glaringly unequal...