Word: transferring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...called for Apollo 11 astronauts to remain sealed inside their spacecraft until it was lifted to the deck of the recovery carrier. There, they would walk through a plastic tunnel running from the hatch of the spacecraft into a hermetically sealed van on the carrier deck. Following a similar transfer from the van to Houston's sealed Lunar Receiving Laboratory (TIME, Dec. 29, 1967), the astronauts were to continue under strict quarantine for a total of 21 days. Recently, however, NASA officials began to have second thoughts about the discomforts the astronauts would endure if they were confined...
...defense is anchored by goalie Mike Stanton, a transfer from Wesleyan and captain Bill Evans. Stanton was superb in the late stages of the Princeton game, and held the Tigers to their lowest output all season four goals...
...thousand. Instead, he would build smaller universities in which all major disciplines would be in touch, giving both scholars and students badly needed interdisciplinary studies. Many campuses have weighed a curb on secret war research, and last week M.I.T. began turning away new contracts. It seems undesirable to transfer such work entirely to the military, but much of it could well be shifted to independent research centers such as the Rand Corp. The secret work that some scholars perform for the CIA in a university setting is also due for rethinking...
Political Failure. By its action, the Cabinet hoped to transfer the guilt to the men and women who actually committed the crimes. "The main problem," explained Justice Minister Horst Ehmke, "is freeing our people from its spiritual complex." Though the Germans had failed politically in the 1930s and '40s by allowing a "crew of murderers" to gain rule of the country, Ehmke argued, political failure should not imply national complicity in the crimes of the Nazis. "But," he warned, "this process of acquitting our people can only be successful when the murderers within our people are brought to justice...
Whatever its imperfections, democracy is the only system man has discovered that makes possible change without violence. Do you really prefer bloodshed to debate? Quick dictates to slow law? This democracy made possible a great revolution in the past 35 years (a profound transfer of power, a distribution of wealth, an improvement of living and health) without "liquidating" millions, without suppressing free speech, without the obscenities of dogma enforced by terror...