Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Larrabee made a great deal of sense in his opening remarks, but he was one of the few who hit the target during the whole long day. Most of the general sessions and panel discussions engaged themselves in a wild chase after a definition of leisure, usually concluding that intellectuals are incapable of distinguishing between work and play...
...denser inner cloud, and an extremely dense, pointlike core. Both cores are no larger than .00000000000002 cm. Both the clouds and core of the proton are positively charged, while the charge in a neutron is electrically balanced by its inner cloud (negative) and its outer cloud and core (positive). Target for future examination: the heart of the matter, the minute, tightly packed center of the proton. "And so it goes," sighed Hofstadter, "forever...
...biggest interest, our principal target, is the Soviet Union and the Communist bloc," says Broadcaster Freed. To prepare the Russian broadcast-a daily half-hour from 7 to 7:30 p.m., which will soon be increased to an hour-Trans World has called on an American couple of Russian Orthodox origin, Nicholas and Rose Leonovich, who live in Morocco. Their typical program begins with folk music, gradually changing to church music-instrumental at first, then sung-followed by a Christian message...
...manufactured, explained a lab team (Albert Ghiorso, Torbjorn Sikkeland, Almon E. Larsh and Robert M. Latimer), by coating thin nickel foil with a circular film of artificial californium (element 98) only one-tenth of an inch in diameter. Placed in a container filled with helium gas, this tiny target was bombarded by a beam of boron nuclei from the lab's heavy-ion linear accelerator. Most of the boron bullets missed, but a few scored a bull's-eye on californium nuclei. Atoms formed by the combination of californium and boron bounced off the nickel foil, were slowed...
...General Motors is often a target of trustbusters and social critics of big business for selling 45% of all U.S. cars, 40% of all trucks, and 95% of buses. Last week G.M. was under attack on a less familiar front. In Manhattan, a federal grand jury, after hearing evidence for 17 months, handed down a criminal indictment against the corporation on charges of monopolizing the U.S. diesel locomotive industry...