Word: use
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eminent domain is still in Vellucci's vocabulary. Last winter he proposed forcing the University to sell the Harvard Motor House to the city for use as a shelter for homeless people. Nothing came of that, either...
...opponents of the buildup object that chemical weapons are not necessarily superior to other kinds of arms and that their main tactical use is to hamper the effectiveness of enemy troops by forcing them to don unwieldy protective suits. By producing an updated generation of the toxins, critics contend, the Pentagon will only escalate a chemical-arms race, and the U.S. alone, according to the American Chemical Association, already possesses more than 5,000 times enough nerve gas to kill everyone on earth...
...Foundation supplies donated human pacemakers to vets who request them for needy canines. Mrs. Florence Myers, 84, who once owned a dachshund, plans to donate her $8,000 pacemaker to the foundation when she dies. Says she: "I just feel it would be nice if someday some dog could use...
Preventive veterinary medicine is burgeoning. Animal doctors now routinely use X rays and other imaging techniques to detect nearly invisible hairline cracks in horses' legs before fractures occur. For tendon and ligament injuries, says University of Pennsylvania Veterinarian Virginia Reef, "diagnostic ultrasound has been a big boon in racing and horse-show circles." Racing has become such big business that young horses increasingly compete regularly when they are only two years old, before their bodies are fully mature. Equine Specialist Howard Seeherman of Tufts uses the treadmill % to condition yearlings in order to reduce injuries and improve performance. Says...
...does Soviet verification hardware stack up against this sophisticated array? Western experts say the Soviets use most of the same technologies but in cruder form. Some of their spy satellites still parachute film to earth for processing, instead of beaming pictures electronically. But the Soviets make up with quantity what they lack in quality. The U.S. has only two Keyhole satellites in operation, while Moscow orbited 31 Cosmos surveillance satellites in 1986 alone...