Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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At the same stressful time, Detroit's automakers will be going through a major changing of the guard: all three companies are expected to get new chief executives in the space of two years. Late last week Ford Chairman Donald Petersen, 63, who helped engineer that company's heroic comeback...
As a result of all the violence, school administrators across the U.S. are searching through tight budgets to find money to beef up school security. If nothing else, the schools will face legal liability if they have not taken steps to be prepared. The New York City schools now operate...
Researchers at Tokyo University are pursuing an even more ambitious goal. Working under Iwao Fujimasa, an artificial-heart specialist, a team of 20 scientists is building a robot less than 1 mm (0.045 in.) in diameter that could travel through veins and inside organs, locating and treating diseased tissue. The...
Working with microscopic machines presents special challenges to scientists. Not only do they risk inhaling their tools or scattering them with a sneeze, but they also have to cope with a new set of physical laws. The problem of friction, for instance, looms ever larger as parts get smaller. The...
When Kennedy did see the Wall, the event became one of the great spectacles of the cold war, his speech one of the most memorable in his presidency. When Kennedy flew into Berlin that June morning, he had a text that did not please him. "You think this is any...