Word: trillion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...draftees could be elimi- nated, and reasonable pay differentials maintaned among servicemen, with pay increases that would total between $2 billion and $3 billion per year. We recommend such increases on grounds of fairness and in the belief that a democracy with a GNF of over half a trillion dollars, and with income-tax rates lower than those prevailing before Vietnam, has no compelling need to use conscription to keep military wages down...
While stressing the problems of slums, crowded alleyways and inadequate playgrounds in the cities, he expressed his surprise at "impractical" proposals for "trillion dollar federal programs. "I almost fell out of my chair" he said; "When I came to Congress I didn't even know what a million dollars...
Although clues provided by 0237-23 may some day fit into a pattern, they have so far only added to the confusion about quasars. Recent radio astronomy measurements indicate that some may be less than a light year (about six trillion miles) in diameter, mere specks in comparison with average galaxies, which contain billions of stars and are 100,000 light-years in diameter. And a new Caltech study suggests that quasars have an immensely bright core which is only a few "light days" in diameter. Yet if the quasars are as far out in space as their red shifts...
Scientists are less sure what comets look like. They weigh perhaps a trillion tons, or one billionth the mass of the earth. There is probably a central region, or nucleus, of about five miles of solid material. This could be one solid rock or a collection of rocks. Some scientists think there is no nucleus...
Nature's most catastrophic events are supernovae-rare stars that burst with a brilliance 100 million times more luminous than the sun, releasing the equivalent of 200 trillion trillion 100-megaton hydrogen bombs. Swiss Astronomer Paul Wild has just added a new one to the stellar log-the first supernova seen from the earth in the unnamed galaxy N.G.C. 4189 in the constellation Virgo...