Word: testing
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...lost $44 million in interest payments on their lease purchases, were back in business. A federal appeals court threw out the lower-court decision, declaring that the lease sales did not breach any environmental law and that the district-court judge had overstepped his authority. Delighted oilmen predicted that test drilling might start as soon as year's end. The decision presumably will also encourage oil companies to bid on leases scheduled for sale early next year on two other geologically promising areas of the outer continental shelf: Georges Bank off Massachusetts and the Southeast Georgia Embayment...
Such statistics as exist seem to indicate that midwife-assisted birth is generally safe. During a test period in Santa Cruz County, Calif., 10% of the deliveries were at home by lay midwives. The infant mortality rate was lower than for the county as a whole (3.2 deaths, v. 15.1 per 1,000), though such figures may be misleading because predictably hazardous births were handled in hospitals. To support their claims, proponents of midwifery point to The Netherlands, where midwifery is widespread and the national infant mortality rate in 1975 was only...
...advances on innumerable technological fronts?last week's space shuttle test, for one example?it does not really have to prove its mettle by maintaining "in perpetuity" an achievement of the steam age. Moreover, in adjusting to a changing situation and sharing its accomplishments with the rest of the world, the nation demonstrates skills and ingenuity of a different but no less vital sort. In that sense, the Panama Canal will always be American...
Berkowitz's rather withdrawn personality seems to have developed its more ominous oddities after he joined the Army in 1971. He flunked his first rifle-shooting test but eventually qualified as an infantry sharpshooter (the middle ranking between marksman and expert) with the M-16 rifle. Early in his Army service, for unknown reasons, he left Judaism to become a fundamentalist Baptist after attending hand-clapping revival meetings...
...space shuttle's historic test began at dawn, when a cherry picker lifted Pilot Fred Haise Jr., 43, a civilian, and Copilot Charles Gordon Fullerton, 40, an Air Force lieutenant colonel, aboard the craft. Two hours later, engines roaring, the 747 mother ship raced down the runway and rose into the air with the Enterprise clinging to its back like a mating insect. Accompanied by five silver T-38 chase planes that drifted around the pair like pilot fish escorting a shark, the odd couple climbed slowly to 8,100 meters (27,000 ft.). At that altitude...