Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neatly on the heels of economic modernization; nonetheless, it is still accepted that the contest over political systems in the future will be largely informed by the outcomes of "hard politics," or economic relations. In the "group of 77," the OAU and the United Nations, Third World leaders may test Moynihan's patience with denunciations of Western imperialism, interventionism, exploitationism and hegemonism. But at the same time, they have almost all come to accept, and begin to conform to, the realities of interdependence--in their dealings with Western-supported world banking organizations, with Western-based multinationals, and in bilateral deals...
...MONDAY, November 13, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) identified ethylene dibromide (EDB) as the most potent cancer-causing substance ever found in the 300 chemical NCI animal test program. Yet, aware of this finding, professors allowed the use of EDB in Tuesday and Wednesday (November 14 and 15) afternoon Natural Sciences 3, "Introduction to Chemistry," labs...
...Pass the Test...
...will be a good test to see what we can do in the longer distances so early in the season," Coach Stephanie Walsh said yesterday. Things will have to gel quickly for the women as they take on Boston University on Saturday and Maine next week...
...atmosphere. They will be passing through hostile territory. At higher altitudes the probes will be whipped by winds with velocities that may be as high as 360 km (220 miles) an hour. They will drop through clouds thought to consist of sulfuric acid droplets. But their real test will come near the planet's surface, where temperatures reach 480° C (900° F) and the atmospheric pressure is nearly 100 times that of earth's at sea level...