Word: yard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...progressive decisions on individual issues--if you don't know what the ACSR is discussing, you can't convince them to play it your way on the issue. The secrecy of the ACSR is even more indefensible now that the group of representatives from the Houses and the Yard that chose the undergraduate ACSR member decided to continue meeting to research upcoming ACSR issues and advise the undergraduate representative of student views on these issues. The group's legitimate and admirable aim is effectively thwarted by the ACSR's operating procedure...
...convention delegates passed a resolution mandating that representatives from each House and the various Yard districts must hold a "town meeting" among their constituents at least twice each semester...
Under a microscope, it resembles a stylized Navaho rug or the aerial view of a railroad switching yard. Like the grains of sand on a beach, it is made mostly of silicon, next to oxygen the most abundant element on the surface of the earth...
Like the tracks in a railroad yard, ICs were really complex switching systems, shuttling electrical pulses hither and yon at the computer's bidding. Still, ICs could not function by themselves; other electronic parts had to keep the switches opening and closing in proper order. Then came the next quantum leap in miniaturization: the development in the late 1960s of large-scale integration (LSI). Unlike their single-circuit predecessors, which were designed to do only one specific job, LSIs integrated a number of circuits with separate functions on individual chips. These in turn were soldered together on circuit boards...
...ceiling is probably disintegrating because of a flaw in the original 50-year-old plaster, said Frank A. Marciano, B&G superintendent for the Yard area...