Word: use
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always found a use for new lands, however hostile. A century before Apollo, Secretary of State William Seward was being castigated for wasting $7.2 million to buy a worthless, frozen wilderness. Today, most Americans would consider Alaska quite a bargain, at 2? an acre...
...object can remain poised over a fixed spot on the equator by matching its speed to the turning earth, 22,320 miles below. Now imagine a cable, linking the satellite to the ground. Payloads could be hoisted up it by purely mechanical means, reaching orbit without any use of rocket power. The cost of operations could be reduced to a tiny fraction of today's values...
...right track. The recent identification of numerous pheromones, or scent signals, in insects and other animals has given odor research new legitimacy. Scientists now know that different organisms use pheromones to gather food, send out sexual cues, mark territory, maintain social pecking orders, sound alarms. Male dogs, for instance, use urine scent to say, in effect: watch out, a tough mutt just passed...
...involved all share the loss. This spreading out is a main reason that Lloyd's group can take the risks it does. The underwriters have already paid about $30 million and set aside $220 million to cover future claims. The assumption in London is that many firms that use leased computers will not want to switch to better, new machines, because change requires reprogramming, new software, personnel training and other costly extras...
Once they saw aye to aye on getting out of Viet Nam. Now Folk Singer Joan Baez and Actress Jane Fonda are at war. The break began over Baez's open letter to Hanoi protesting jails jammed with 200,000 political prisoners and the use of captives as human mine detectors. Invited to sign, Fonda demurred. Baez, she explained, was aligning herself "with the most narrow and negative elements in our country, who continue to believe that Communism is worse than death." Retorted Baez: "I don't have any ideological yoke around my neck that blinds...