Word: testing
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Though the proposed new agency survived its first test last month, it did so by only one vote-22 to 21 in the House Government Operations Committee. The bill's chances of passing the House are very much in doubt. Coming to the bill's defense last week, Carter argued that it would cost only $15 million a year, v. $10.4 million for the 13 existing consumer offices. Said he: "It is a tiny amount, but very, very important." Yet even as staunch a supporter of the proposal as New York Democrat Benjamin Rosenthal has challenged the President...
...Sternest Test. The Ecuadorians argued that the U.S. should lift its ban on their attempted purchase of Israeli-made Kfir jets, which are equipped with General Electric engines. The First Lady explained that the Administration had stopped the sale because it did not want to be responsible for introducing such sophisticated weaponry into the area. In reply, the Ecuadorians argued that they needed the jets because neigh boring Peru, their old enemy, already had sophisticated equipment...
Most scientists concede that this honor could well be won by the giant Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) now under construction at Princeton. The TFTR is scheduled to begin operation in 1981 and is expected to prove the scientific feasibility of fusion...
...Chicago's Swedish Covenant Hospital, Cardiologist Dr. Noel Nequin started an exercise program for heart patients six years ago. The first step is a stress test, in which the subject runs on a treadmill while wired to an electrocardiograph. Then an exercise regime is set. The beginning pace may be a walk or a slow jog, with frequent pulse checks. Conditioning is slower than with healthy joggers, but the results can be startling. Ten of Nequin's patients, one of them a 47-year-old merchant who survived a triple bypass operation, were planning...
They do; before 5 a.m., Mercedes and Triumphs purr up to the Aerobics Center, and their drivers begin to circulate around the one-mile track. Each has undergone a stress test and has been weighed submerged in water to determine what proportion of his body weight is fat. Runners punch their times into a computer and receive their points. At the end of each month they get a printout of their progress. Thirty points a week, says Cooper, will maintain condition. Some overachievers earn...