Word: turn
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...minority party. The latest measurement was a recent Gallup poll showing that 42% of the public considers itself Democratic, 29% Republican, and the balance independent. But many Republicans think that the G.O.P. now has the opportunity to capitalize on developing new alignments. Strategists differ on just how to turn the trick. One approach-which might be called the politics of retreat-is outlined in fascinating detail in a book published last week titled The Emerging Republican Majority...
...three receivers. The portable outfit sent his voice back to the LM, which then rebroadcast it to the world. Once Edwin Aldrin emerged from the cabin, he picked up Armstrong's voice directly by means of a backpack receiver of his own. Aldrin's voice, in turn, was broadcast to Armstrong by a tiny FM transmitter. It was Armstrong's backpack equipment, however, that converted Aldrin's voice back to a standard AM frequency, combined it with his own signal and fed it into the lunar module, which converted it back into FM for transmission...
...such treaty now under discussion deals with the thorny issue of responsibility when there are accidents involving spacecraft or when objects from space plunge to earth. To settle any claims that might arise, lawyers probably will look to the precedents offered by existing aviation law. They may also turn to even older legal guidelines. The laws of the high seas, for example, call for freedom of navigation even while they allow nations to exploit specific areas for commercial, scientific, and-in the case of nuclear tests-military purposes. Maritime laws generally use "reasonableness" as the criterion for how much benefit...
Some lake! Industrial wastes from Detroit's auto companies, Toledo's steel mills and the paper plants of Erie, Pa., have helped turn Lake Erie into a gigantic cesspool. Of 62 beaches along its U.S. shores, only three are rated completely safe for swimming. Even wading is unpleasant; as many as 30,000 sludge worms carpet each square yard of lake bottom...
...When we emerged from an agricultural to an industrial society at the turn of the century, we literally busted out all over. There were no guidelines for development, there was desecration of the earth and abuse of raw materials. Nobody wants to go back to that. But we have to decide what we want. If we want open spaces, fresh water and clean air, we should be willing to sacrifice the concentration of industry. When you put ten massive industries side by side on one river, even if you scientifically eliminate the pollution problem, you still have the environmental problem...