Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unnecessary and ungrateful response to the Fifth Republic. In the decade of Gaullism, France's workers, particularly the skilled ones who earn an average $195 each month, have enthusiastically entered the consumer economy. Fully 70% of all workers' households have a refrigerator, a washing machine and a vacuum cleaner. Though only 46% of all French families own TV sets, at least six out of ten workers' families are able to set tle down on the canape at night to watch le football matches and the pop-singer contests. More than half of all French workers...
...electron beam maintains its focus and power for a short distance after it squirts out of the gun barrel and into the atmosphere. In earlier experimental cutters the beam lost its power almost immediately in collisions with air molecules; the target material had to be placed inside a vacuum chamber along with the rest of the gun's components. And since the chamber's size was always limited, so was the size of the job it could handle...
...Lentz has been largely responsible for the football team's consistent success on defense. In the last ten seasons Harvard has never finished below third place in Ivy League defensive standings. Since Yovicsin must devote much of his time to public relations and administrative chores, Lentz has filled a vacuum by providing enthusiasm and instruction to the team as a whole. Defensive players who have played professional football after graduating from Harvard have remarked that their training under Lentz was equal to, or better than, that of any big-time players...
...result has been the creation of a leadership vacuum so great that China today is less a nation governed than a nation harangued. The army's effort to step in and run local politics-has only partly helped. The best estimate is that only in six regions, or half the country, is the P.L.A. still loyal...
...statement of the Trustees shows us that this Ad Hoc Committee is talking in a vacuum. The Trustees called for a temporary halt in gym construction as a favor to the mayor, not in response to the needs of the community. I.D.A. is not mentioned at all. The faculty has made no attempt to demand the power to negotiate, or the power to control the police. This indicates that they fail to recognize what is clear to everyone else: the Administration has been thoroughly discredited. At the same time that the Faculty has been claiming they were "mediating" in good...