Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...solve. The economy remains a shambles, with constant food shortages. The flight of the middle class continues, as evidenced by the numbers of people who are trying to secure visas to the U.S. and Western Europe...
...disruption in supplies. Iran, however, did notify some customers that they would receive 5% less oil than they expected for the rest of the year. No reason was given. The previous oil administrator, Hassan Nazih, had far more autonomy in carrying out his responsibilities. But he resented the constant intervention of the ayatullahs, said so, and was forced out last September. For good measure, the government issued a summons for Nazih's arrest, but he managed to escape to West Germany. Partly as a result of such political interference and mishandling, Iran's oil production gyrates between 2.3 million...
...been a very tough year as far as wins and losses go," he says, but adds quickly, "It is not always wins and losses that you take out of the program." The comment reveals a constant thread in St. John's conversation about Harvard football: that the experience of playing serves at least as important a position as those vital...
...other words, our galaxy is speeding toward Virgo at about 200 million kilometers per hour. This previously undetected motion was not taken into account in earlier calculations of Hubble's Constant...
Astronomers at Harvard and elsewhere reacted to Huchra's research with approval and cautious acceptance. George B. Field, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the CFA, said it represents the "sharpest indication yet" of Hubble's Constant's true value...