Word: tampered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both his affection for San Francisco and his imaginative megalomania. "I don't know if all my ideas for City will work, but they're worth trying," he says. "In publishing, the margin of error is small, and people are frightened to try anything new, to tamper with the formula. But I find the frequency of a magazine exciting. With a movie, the whole process is so slow. Publishing City is going to be like making a movie a week...
...tons of TNT. The student (portrayed by Actor John Holecek) describes the ease with which he mastered basic bomb making, sketching the structure of his bomb in a childlike doodle of two circles and a dot: "You explode the outer ring of TNT which squeezes the tamper which compresses the plutonium core, and boom." Could a similarly self-taught terrorist steal (or, as the experts on the program delicately put it, "divert") the needed plutonium...
America faces still higher energy costs, either through President Ford's program or his critics' call for a steeper federal gasoline tax-or some compromise between those positions. Congress will tinker and tamper with Ford's energy program in hopes of moderating its inflationary impact. But if, through some legislative miracle, the taxes, tariffs and decontrol measures are enacted as they are now proposed, the average price of crude oil in the U.S. will take a substantial leap from $9 per bbl. to $13. The Federal Energy Administration estimates that the average price of heating oil would...
...powers. Then one of Levy's assistants became suspicious when he noticed that the director seemed to be loitering needlessly around the equipment. With two colleagues, the assistant decided to check. From a hiding place one watched while the others helped Levy run a test. They saw him tamper with the recorder, causing his tape to score high. Another set of instruments-installed without Levy's knowledge-confirmed their suspicions by recording the expected 50% score...
...Averell Harriman correctly observed that the "Soviets would pull in their belt before they'd let us tamper with their system." The naive stance of the "Jacksonians" is destructive to the continued easing of tensions between the U.S. and U.S.S.R...