Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...connecting with that ball." Ellie McGrath, who wrote the accompanying story on physiology and how it affects women's sports, was also steered away from athletics as a child. Three years ago she began long-distance running as a diversion, took on the Yonkers marathon to test herself, survived the 26.2-mile course and was hooked. Now she averages 30 to 40 miles a week up New York's Riverside Park to the George Washington Bridge and back. She also trains and competes regularly on one of the best amateur women's teams in the country...
...first C.U. test, the driver suddenly tugs at the steering wheel, then lets it go while keeping the gas pedal down. The wheel, says C.U., is supposed to spin back quickly to its original position-but in the Omni-Horizon, wheel and car swung violently from side to side. Chrysler's manager of automotive safety relations, Christopher Kennedy, says that Chrysler itself performed this test on Omni-Horizon with inconclusive results: "Some do, some don't" perform the same way as the cars that Consumers Union examined. But, says Chrysler's chief engineer, Sidney Jeffe, the test...
Jimmy Carter has often promised that he would cut down on the Mickey Mouse regulations that inflate production costs, but in the first major test last week, he caved in to the regulators...
...colt, Steve Cauthen and Affirmed, became the eleventh winners of the Triple Crown of American Thoroughbred racing last Saturday by taking one of the most thrilling races in the history of the sport. They measured up to the demanding 1½-mile Belmont Stakes-"test of the champions" -and moved into the most select circle of racing royalty. Affirmed's honor was made grander still by the rousing challenge of his gallant rival, Alydar, who shadowed Harbor View Farm's chestnut in lockstep around the graceful, sweeping turns and down the long, open straightaways of New York...
...find the answers, Focks will set up in New Orleans two 40-hectare (100-acre) sites, one as a control and one for experimentation. During this summer, he will release in the test area about 1,000 female Toxorhynchites, which will lay eggs that hatch into predatory larvae. Because the New Orleans mosquito control board has kept records on the Aedes aegypti for four years, any significant decrease in its numbers will be apparent. "We know the Toxorhynchites will be effective," declares Focks, "and the cost could be only pennies per acre...