Word: teller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whites, we must be able to replace whites. We can't get trapped into a condition where we need an airplane and have to beg the enemy to fly it for us. We can't take over the bank and then have to be a listener rather than a teller, because we don't have the science of finance...
...were overruled, and today Iam inclined to agree that we were wrong," Conant said. "When we made the recommendation, we thought there was a very small chance that the bomb would work. A new development [introduced by Edward M. Teller] made it a much more straightforward thing. I at least had hoped that the President and Secretary Acheson might have used the threat of developing an atomic bomb to force weapons control negotiations with the Russians, but looking back, that may have been a utopian point of view...
Russo's wife works as a bank teller. His unemployment compensation plus the United Steelworkers' jobless benefits will add up to as much as his take-home pay as a laborer. "I've been through this before," says Russo. "At first it's like a paid vacation, but then you have too much time on your hands, and you begin to worry." The most nagging worry: if Russo is off for six months, he will lose Blue Cross coverage. Money pinch or not, Ray Russo has no plans to look for work because that would wipe...
...physicists' physicist. As head of the University of Gottingen's prestigious Institute of Theoretical Physics in the pre-Nazi era, he was one of the pillars of the flourishing German scientific community. A brilliant teacher, he attracted many of the great names of the atomic era-Oppenheimer, Teller, Fermi-to Göttingen's lecture halls and laboratories. Equally communicative outside the university, he produced a flood of books and essays to unravel the complex new physics for an uncomprehending public. But Born, who died in Göttingen last week...
...reactor coverage to $82 million. As a result, the Government has to provide an additional $478 million of insurance to persuade utility executives to go atomic. There is no way to eliminate the danger altogether, but it could be minimized by restricting reactors to sparsely populated areas. Physicist Edward Teller also suggests that they could be built underground, a technique already used in Sweden...