Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...later shipped home from Viet Nam after three were lost in four weeks of combat flying. The F-111s are now back in action, but they have not proved to be the invulnerable war machines their designers promised. In the past eight weeks, four have disappeared without a trace in the wilds of Southeast Asia. Cost in lives: eight crewmen dead or missing. Cost in hardware: approximately $60 million...
...Home Office, which encouraged Greenwood in his research, has hopes that the technique will prove useful to detectives. Electrostatic shoeprints, for instance, could give some hint of the size and sex of a culprit, reveal how many people were involved in a caper and even allow police to trace their movements...
...your yard." Lay the paper flat and anchor it, the ad advises, for erosion control. Or use it as a compost-pit liner: "It is good to have woody material like newsprint decomposing in your soil." Moreover, says the Star, "newsprint ink is like dessert. The ink contains valuable trace minerals in the seaweed-derived binder...
...document, then, is for history no longer an inert material through which it tries to reconstitute what men have done or said, the events of which only the trace remains; history is now trying to define within the documentary material itself unities, totalities, series, relations...
Modern grain dealers can trace their roots to the Old Testament's Joseph, who advised the Pharaoh to store grain in bountiful times and release it during famines. Despite its ancient lineage, the risky business of buying, storing, shipping and selling grain has remained as obscure as it is enormous. Recently, half a dozen major grain-trading companies have been bobbing up in the news with unusual frequency because of their role as middlemen in the Soviet Union's billion-dollar purchase of U.S. wheat and other crops. The sale has also raised charges from Democrats that some...