Word: augments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gases that occupy the vast regions between the stars. These observations, which may offer new clues to such questions as how stars are formed, cannot be made from earth where the atmosphere blocks ultraviolet light. In addition, at a number of their stops, the astronauts took careful measurements to augment data about the moon's magnetic field, which analysis of moon rocks shows was once surprisingly strong; the strong field, in turn, suggests that the core of the moon was once molten. Aboard Casper, high above the moon's surface, Command Ship Pilot Mattingly made his own scientific...
There were occasional flashes of the familiar Fidel. Three hundred Cubans had been brought in to augment the Chilean security setup, so one newsman jestingly asked Castro if he was wearing a bulletproof vest, too. "Oye, it is as hot here as it is in Havana," he shot back. "I don't even wear an undershirt." But Castro plainly failed to arouse much excitement. When he arrived, a crowd of some 750,000 Chileans lined the streets of Santiago, chanting "Fidel, Fidel, give those Yankees hell!" Bigger and more enthusiastic crowds had turned out for Charles de Gaulle...
...halftime shows at the Brown and Yale games will include the band. But the Athletic Department subsidy for these trips has been halved. The band has managed to augment this subsidy with the proceeds from several concerts in New York City...
...former Lockheed systems analyst, to Gary as director of the school. "We want a job done," he announced, likening education to the assembly line. "One fellow puts in the nuts, you put in the bolts, and the product comes out." Kendrick transferred ten teachers, and used their salaries to augment his staff with 28 teacher's aides...
...since 1960, while the nation's total health bill has more than doubled, to $70 billion, or $324 per person, a year. As his prescription for the malaise of the American health-care system, President Nixon last week sent to Congress a package that aims to improve and augment existing programs through private enterprise rather than new forms of Government control. Under the President's plan...