Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quite like it. It is an ocean without shore, yet it bathes every nation's border. It is a military "high ground" of measureless potential, yet no nation has so far dared to exploit it. It is a resource of such proportions that man has only begun to tap it. And in all this vast province of opportunity called space, no writ runs. All the experience of quest and conquest, of discovery and exploration of the earth provides scant precedent for dealing with the promise and problems of space...
When writing a speech, Bobby calls for drafts from key staffers; as a rule, he later edits and adds considerably to their versions. His small New York staff can tap some five dozen volunteers, mostly young lawyers or professors, to work up memos as well...
...from the U.S. Interior Department. The Indians, who had not been consulted, countered by winning a court injunction and $15,000 in fees for the right to drill. But the funds were under the control of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and when the Tyonek village council tried to tap the account for needed improvements, the bureau was slow to respond. The Tyoneks were even more unhappy when the Interior Department in 1963 began soliciting bids for the long-range leasing of exploration rights on the reservation. Though the proceeds were to be held in escrow pending a decision...
...asked our correspondents around the world to tap every source -from the not-for-attribution background of intelligence officers to the firsthand reports of returning travelers, including journalists. Scores of such sources were interviewed: our correspondent in Eastern Europe found a Polish girl recently returned from Hanoi; the Washington bureau talked with a schoolmate of Giap's now living in the nation's capital; the Boston bureau interviewed a French journalist-scholar now at Harvard who has been close to the problems of the Viet Nam area for more than 20 years. More general sources were readily available...
...competitors have some selling to do before they can tap this market fully. The U.S. and British governments still refuse permits for the sale to the East of such advanced third-generation equipment as the IBM System/360 and English Electric's System 4, which computer commissars want to buy most of all. Beyond that, as Western experts discovered at Prague, the East is woefully ignorant of even second-generation procedures and equipment. "In most cases," commented one American expert, "the machines are too sophisticated for the problems. The Communists are very good in theory, but they have...