Word: units
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shoulder. Later, tensions mounted dramatically when a teen-age Catholic boy was shot and killed by an army patrol after he twice refused an order to stop throwing gasoline bombs into a lumberyard. The I.R.A. retaliated by shooting down a soldier guarding a bomb-disposal unit. The bloodshed, said an I.R.A. statement, was "the direct responsibility of Queen Elizabeth...
...this year, with all freshmen housed there, it will be just below 2:1. Nevertheless, that first year is often a difficult one for women, who at times find themselves overwhelmed by the numbers of men. While Moses says he considers the freshman class a single unit of about 1600 students, and not one divided by sex, he does not foresee any particular problems in dealing with the women's situation. After all, he points out, in his four years as an administrator at Manhattanville, he worked with 800 students each year, 80 per cent of whom were women...
...uses up the equivalent of 1 million bbl. per day of oil, or 2.5% of the U.S.'s daily energy consumption. More than 70% of all new homes built in the U.S. now have central air conditioning, and 53% of all older homes have at least one room unit. Air conditioners rank behind only space and water heaters among the home appliances as drains on the nation's energy resources...
...evaluates the air conditioner's ability to produce the largest amount of cooling with the smallest amount of electricity. The EER tests show that the industry is indeed capable of producing machines that would meet strict new federal requirements; one of the main features of a more efficient unit is a large set of condensers and evaporator coils. But these machines are relatively bulky and cost more to manufacture than the less energy-efficient ones. Unfortunately for the cause of energy conservation, buyers of air conditioners in the U.S. have so far demonstrated a marked preference for saving...
Many recent theorists?such as Nobel-prizewinning Ethologist Konrad Lorenz and Scots Biologist V.C. Wynne-Edwards?have focused on the group or species as the primary unit of selection. Darwin wrote that it was the individual organism. But Sociobiologists believe it is the genes themselves that conduct the life-or-death evolutionary struggle. This gene-based view of life is compatible with a finding made independently by researchers in a widely divergent branch of science. Rutgers Biochemist George Pieczenik has discovered patterns in DNA coding that he sees as evidence of selection occurring at the molecular level (TIME, April...