Word: tested
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Capitol Hill, too, the conglomerates have come under increasing fire, and Congress is considering bills to end favorable tax treatment of the debentures that are often exchanged in conglomerate takeovers.* Rather than wait for such legislation, though, Attorney General John N. Mitchell elected to bring a test case under existing antitrust...
With a court test ahead that could drag on for two years or more, LTV stock became increasingly unpopular. LTV common, which hit a high of $135 last May, closed last week at $59. And Jones & Laughlin dropped so much that Ling's $425 million investment was, for the moment at least, worth only $290 million...
Precision Tool. Instead of zeroing in on the infant mind, which is almost impossible to test, Bruner has concentrated on the hand. This remarkable instrument, so ineffectual at birth, rapidly develops into a precision tool. By the fourth week, most babies will grasp anything their fingers touch. Bruner has devised a series of experiments calculated to throw light not on what the baby's hand can do, but on how the baby discovers the ability...
...such test, the young subject is held in his mother's lap within reach of a puzzle box. Behind a sliding transparent panel, a toy is placed to snare the subject's attention. To collect this fascinating prize, the baby must hold the panel open while plundering the box of its contents. Bruner's youngest subjects -under one year-typically reach for the toy with one hand, encounter the transparent obstacle and bang on it or give up, either in slumber, indifference or tears. Older babies may manage to slide the panel up with one hand, then...
With a Soviet SST and the Anglo-French Concorde already being successfully test-flown, what has delayed the American SST? Two years ago, the U.S. made the decision to build an SST. Later, Boeing, the contract winner, encountered major design problems: its radical swing-wing concept was an economic disaster. The engineers went back to their drawing boards and last fall came up with another SST, this time a fixed delta-wing titanium plane capable of cruising at a speed of 1,800 m.p.h. while carrying more than 250 passengers 4,000 miles...