Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite such doubts, domes are mushrooming in a dizzying array of skins-from the wood and metal favored by kit manufacturers to brick, stone, cement and plastic. Kahn has experimented with domes of plywood walls insulated with nitrogen-filled vinyl pillows, aluminum frames covered with Plexiglas, and wood covered with burlap then sprayed with quick-hardening plastic foam. Perhaps the most interesting new project is one involving the use of Mylar plastic film coated so that one side reflects light while the other is transparent. Outsiders thus see only an opaque dome, but those inside have an unobstructed view...
...names enables him to recall the exact conditions (water temperature, wind direction, barometric pressure, tackle, fly, etc.) under which he killed every salmon for 42 years. Another is a man called Holloway, who more than adequately compensates for his regular failure on the stream with success pursuing an array of clean-run salmon widows. A tantalizingly small book, but an authentic classic...
...using its full array of air weapons, including tactical fighter-bombers, B-52 strategic bombers, gunships and reconnaissance with "special top secret" equipment, according to the Associated Press...
Pusey mentioned all the deans who have served during his Administration-he became President in 1953-saying, "Where else could one recruit an equal array of talent to guide the multiform efforts of an institution which has now clearly become one of the great intellectual centers of the world...
Since the 1930s, Washington has spent or committed at least $20 billion for a widening array of subsidy programs to make homes and apartments cheaper for one segment or another of the population. One subsidy usually begets a demand for another, and last year Congress concocted a new batch of preference plans for the latest beneficiary: middle-income families. Among other things an $85-million program will soon be put into effect, allowing Federal Home Loan Banks to absorb mortgage interest up to $20 a month for five years for home buyers...