Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians, with their huge booster rockets, have been less concerned about weight; they have employed a two-gas system from the beginning of their manned-space program. It has proved awkward in at least one of their space missions. Before Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov could leave Voskhod II for his space walk, he had to breathe pure oxygen (to rid his body of dissolved nitrogen and avoid the possibility of bends). He then entered an air lock, sealed his suit, gradually lowered its pressure to about 3 lbs. per sq. in. (so that it would be less inflated and more flexible...
Having considered all of these possibilities, NASA decided in the late 1950s that a space-mission failure was more likely to occur because of the added complexity and weight of a two-gas system than because of the fire hazard of a pure-oxygen system. Designers spared no efforts to fireproof the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft. All electrical wiring was coated with noncombustible materials. Devices capable of sending out sparks were placed in sealed boxes. Space suits, seats, instruments and cabin walls were all designed to avoid the generation of static electricity...
With his skill in the art of ambivalence and his constant concern with consensus, Sato is an irritating leader to the more Westernized of Japan's interi (intellectuals). Today, at 65, he is a ponderous speaker but a man of steadying weight in a nation ready to take off in many directions. He reads "middlebrow" samurai novels (the Japanese equivalent of westerns), and watches with benevolence the careers of his two sons, Ryutaro, 38, an oil-company executive, and Shinji, 34, who works for the Nippon Kokan steel company. To the looks of a Kabuki actor, Sato adds...
...system now in use does not consider pluses or minuses in determining rank list, and the CEP argues that this may unfairly penaize some students. Since a B+ receives no more weight than a B-, a student with three B+'s and one C+ is assigned to Group IV while someone with four B--'s winds up in Group...
Schlesinger also urges a suspension of U.S. bombing of the North, because the raids might well "heighten Hanoi's resolve to fight on." He is not alone in that argument. But he gives insufficient weight to an equal probability: an end to the bombing might lead Hanoi to the mistaken conclusion that if it holds off negotiations just a little longer, the U.S. will finally tire of the whole mess...