Word: threshold
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...after centuries of wondering and theorizing, man is on the threshold of knowing. On the lunar surface, he may at last learn the secrets not only of the moon and its birth but also of the beginnings of his own planet and of the solar system itself...
Impaired Skill. During a recent seminar in Manhattan on traffic and accident medicine, Borkenstein listed seven specific types: 1) the drinking driver to whom neither drinking nor driving is a problem and whose blood alcohol concentration never goes over the .10% or .15% threshold accepted by most states; 2) the skillful driver who usually imbibes moderately, but on occasion overindulges to the point where his skill is impaired; 3) the man whose skill behind the wheel has deteriorated because of age or illness and who may consequently feel the effects of alcohol more acutely; 4) the inexperienced driver, whose lack...
...International Seminar (originated by presidential aide Henry Kissinger, when he was a Harvard government professor). Under this program, about 30 foreign officials, scholars, labor leaders etc--whom Kissinger described as "standing on the threshold of national prominence"--study at Harvard during the summer...
...Real. Some people who evince little or no vocal or visible reaction when they are obviously hurt say they have a high threshold for pain. Many more, who do not try to suppress their feelings, admit to having a low threshold. There is no physiological evidence of any differences in the pain sensors and therefore in the basic pain sensations in these two groups. Whatever differences there are apparently exist entirely in the emotional reactions. These also vary with cultural attitudes. The stoicism of the American Indian and the Chinese is proverbial, although ethnic variations in sensitivity have not been...
EIGHT years and $24 billion after John F. Kennedy challenged his countrymen to become "pioneers in a space project," the U.S. is poised to put men on the moon. Yet even as they stand on the threshold of success, officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are in a state of public stoicism and private gloom. Their triumph has become their travail: having progressed from orbiting a 31.5-lb. Explorer satellite to the Apollo lunar landing program, they are like showmen who brought off a spectacularly successful act and are now having trouble deciding upon an acceptable encore...