Word: tandem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cylinder gasoline engine in preparation for the 250-mile endurance run. This job would never carry the wife and three kids to the lake each summer. It is a three-wheeled "people-powered" gadget that relies mainly on its two nearly reclined passengers' ability to pedal an attenuated tandem bike. The little go-cart engine is only for the hills. Explains Student Paul Fromm, ";We can go 40 or 50 m.p.h. ... at least it seems that fast when you're this close to the ground...
...Ellsberg-Bundy incident presents a classic distinction between the proto- and neo-Harvard man. And one can also draw a distinction between what we call 'tandem grads' (those who got a degree from Harvard College and also from one of the University's graduate schools) and 'solo grads,' who get only one degree from either the college or one of the graduate schools. Obviously, a 'tandem grad' would seem to be at the top of the totem pole, particularly if he is also a proto-Harvard...
What has made verification so controversial was the loss early this year of two important CIA listening posts in Iran, close to the U.S.S.R. border. From these sites, U.S. computers and other electronic devices in tandem with spy satellites had been able to monitor most Soviet missile test-firings and hence learn, among other things, the weapons' length, diameter and launchweight. This is precisely the kind of information that will be essential for determining whether Moscow abides by a crucial SALT II restriction: increasing or decreasing key characteristics of an existing intercontinental ballistic missile by more than 5% would...
Only two years ago, it was widely feared that the Communist parties of Italy, France and Spain had a real chance of coming to power in tandem with established democratic parties. Loosely united under the rubric of Eurocommunism, these parties shared a set of common principles-autonomy from Moscow, allegiance to the democratic process and support or at least tolerance of the European Community and the NATO Alliance...
...gold that last week it ballooned to a record $277.15 an ounce. Other precious metals have been piggybacking on the yellow stuff. Lately silver and platinum have risen even faster than gold. Predictions that gold could hit $300 an ounce by midsummer-and that other metals could rise in tandem -are becoming self-fulfilling as speculators rush to buy in anticipation of higher prices...