Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often, there is a tendency to view the low-income neighborhood as expendable... One chief thrust of the Cambridge proposal is to confront that issue directly, and to test many techniques for preserving a low-income area for its residents and for injecting new and valuable resources into its way of life...
...Norr '68, the HPC's current chairman, hopes to shift the emphasis of the audits from a department's bureauctic regulations to the substance of departmental offerings and the quality of teaching. Whether audits with this new emphasis meet with the past cooperation from departments will be an interesting test of how institutionalized the program has become...
...might have added-but did not-that has earned the Administration brick bats when it comes to Viet Nam. Tuchman concluded with what sounded remarkably like a Middle Eastern version of the "domino theory" that is so derisively scorned by Administration critics when applied to Asia. "Aqaba is the test from which the Arab nations, and behind them all the nations of Asia and Africa, will take their cue," she wrote. "If we fail to act to confirm the principle of freedom of navigation, every person in every one of these countries will take note...
...almost the sole survivor of its epoch. But is it any good? Its new owner, Professional Gourmet Maurice C. Dreicer of New York, who paid $518 for his bottle of Canary-highest price ever for a single bottle of wine-is in no mood to put it to the test himself. He plans, instead, to carry it gently back to the Canary Islands, where he maintains an apartment, and there he will present it as a gift to the island's governor, "to help revive interest in the Canary Islands' wine...
Split Image. To test his suspicion, Kuiper loaded a team of scientists, a twelve-inch telescope and some complex infra-red instruments into a NASA Convair 990 jet last month and flew along a computer-determined course between Montreal and Lake Superior. At its 37,000-foot altitude, the plane was above 99.5% of the earth's atmospheric water vapor, which ordinarily confuses ground-based astronomers attempting to determine the amount of water on other planets...