Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recalls co-director Bond: "When we first started we really didn't zero in on anything. We attacked a whole spectrum of problems like prison reform, women's rights and the environment. Now we just concern ourselves with student-related issues." It was this focus and devotion to detail that began to win the respect of legislators. Says Assembly Speaker Bob Moretti: "I've seen them with my own eyes turn legislators around. They've been effective because they know what they're lobbying about...
...that would enable him to conduct a little panspermia of his own. Using such rockets, it would be possible to reach planets orbiting around any of thousands of stars with spacecraft carrying microorganisms, such as dormant algae and bacterial spores. Suitably protected and maintained at temperatures close to absolute zero, the organisms could be kept alive for a million years or more...
...Navy request for new ships, and 156,100 troops from active duty rosters. Moreover, the Army missed its July recruitment goal by 24%. Would the military's public relations be worse if its p.r. spending were kept within its p.r. budget-or, for that matter, reduced to zero? Or would there be no change...
...until we get the darn things down and look at them." There was one performance that no one could fault: a spider named Arabella, on board Skylab for a biological experiment, accommodated to space flight within only a day or two, learning to spin her complex geometric web in zero-G after only a few false starts. Said Garriott with a touch of envy: "She is a very fast learner indeed...
...play Risko, a simple game invented and distributed by the Michigan Heart Association and played on a board covered with numbered squares. Participants need merely find the squares that best describe them and then add up their scores. A player who does not smoke can award himself a zero. One who puffs two or more packs a day gets ten points. Seven points are given to all who are more than 50 Ibs. overweight, one point to anyone who regularly exercises or does hard physical work, and eight to those who do not exercise at all. Players who score fewer...