Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spotted the Soviets using an antiaircraft radar system to track one of their own missiles in flight. The U.S. questioned whether the Soviets were illegally converting antiaircraft defenses into an antiballistic missile system. But the Soviets maintained that they were using the radar only to test the rocket's navigation system. Still, notes the report, the radar activity ceased "a short time later...
Last week Miller handily passed the test. After five weeks of slipshod investigation, the staff of the Senate Banking Committee had compiled 1,400 pages of testimony and evidence about alleged bribery by Textron to push sales of its Bell helicopters in Iran; leaks had inspired innuendo-filled stories in the press. But in nearly four hours of face-to-face grilling, Miller convinced the Senators that there was no proof that Textron had in effect resorted to bribery, and still less that he as boss had condoned it. In a stinging rebuke to its own chairman, Wisconsin Democrat William...
...still really psyched," Walsh said last night, adding that today will be the team's big test. With the 1650-yd. freestyle, 100-yd. freestyle and the 50-yd. backstroke still left to do, Gina Stuart and Katie Kelley will join the ranks of Harvard's swimmers, putting all six of the Crimson stars in the water...
...years later, a sophomore in high school, Jim had enough confidence in his skiing to attempt to join the patrol. "I wanted it so bad I could taste it," he said, "and I knew they would only take 15 people." After passing an endurance test, he took a written exam on first aid and ski patrol regulations, and passed with the second highest score. This qualified him for the skiing test: Jim had to demonstrate every technique of skiing, from stem christie to parallel to snowplow on a very steep slope, and ski every kind of snow--packed, powder...
...sometimes if they were administering a test at the area they would want us to be dummy accident victims, so we'd fake crackups, pile ourselves around trees, and they'd test senior trainees. We used to have fun really wrapping ourselves around things, to make it a tough accident...