Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oppose them, he will cast his negative vote but not lead the opposition. Although their indecision may look like abdication of their roles, the stance of both men may be tactically smart. But before the emotional Panama Canal issue is settled, it is certain to be a severe test of their leadership once the nose counting begins in earnest...
...successfully negotiated ?along with Sol Linowitz?a new Panama Canal treaty. Explains Bunker: "I don't think there is any age limitation on a person's usefulness. It depends entirely on the individual." At 71, Averell Harriman negotiated the atomic test-ban treaty with the Soviet Union. At 85, he continues to offer sage counsel to the less experienced Carter Administration...
Nowadays Pepper must face the same test that all elderly people who are working do: Can he handle the job? Chairing the Select Committee on Aging, Pepper is guiding through Congress the bill changing the mandatory-retirement laws. He is attacking this task as zestfully as he has countless others in his 28 years on the Hill. He has repeatedly raised the retirement issue in speeches and numerous articles on op-ed pages across the country...
...locate life's master clock and perhaps use that precious knowledge to slow it or even stop it. One locale for the clock (if there is indeed only one) may be within the smallest unit of life, the cell. Growing normal embryonic cells of various species in a test tube, Biologist Leonard Hayflick has made an astonishing finding: they are not immortal, as scientists believed from early experiments, in which a single cell line had been cultivated for years, but have definite life spans...
Lance referred to his Washington ordeal only by indirection and with some country Georgia jokes about plucked chickens and soon-to-be-slaughtered lambs. He told of the elderly woman who picked out a chicken at a meat market, peered under its wings, poked its breast and tested its thighs, then rejected it. Complained the butcher: "Lady, I don't think you could pass a test like that." Lance also told of a zoo visitor who was pleased at seeing a lamb and a lion sharing a pen and praised the zookeeper for fulfilling the biblical prophecy that natural...