Word: clustered
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...voices were raised in song. There were gasps of wonder as visitors to the California Museum of Science in Los Angeles came upon a cluster of eight fantastic gilded angels, each 28 ft. tall and cunningly wrought out of glass, steel, bits of tapestry and even animal bones. The angels, created by Sculptor Tony Duquette and illuminated by hundreds of flickering votive candles, helped commemorate the 200th anniversary of the City of Angels...
...same number in Western Europe-). They are also outproducing the U.S. in robots at a rate of at least 5 to 1. Like many troubled U.S. executives, General Electric's Julius Mirabal recalls going to Japan in 1976 to compare production techniques. He found robots everywhere, including one cluster that had reduced the work force in a vacuum-cleaner plant from several hundred men to eight. "Unless we start doing something to increase U.S. productivity, the United States will be out of business as a country," says Mirabal, who returned from Japan to find that GE was using only...
...diameter. At 825 kg (1,820 lbs.), the whole machine weighs less than a Ford Escort. It moves through frictionless space effortlessly from its initial thrust, sometimes affected by the gravitational pull of planets, but able to correct its course with blasts from small thruster rockets. The most complex cluster of equipment is housed forward near its two TV cameras, and includes an infrared radiometer that measures the heat of planets and spectrometers to analyze composition of the atmosphere. The magnetometers for locating and measuring magnetic fields are carried on the opposite side of the antenna, on a derrick-like...
Lyme Disease. In 1975 Yale researchers began investigating a highly unusual cluster of arthritis cases among families living in the rural area of Lyme, Conn. Later, doctors at the U.S. submarine base in nearby New London reported several patients with a distinctive skin lesion that in Europe had been associated with tick bites. The seemingly unrelated ailments became linked when the Yale research team found that about a quarter of Lyme arthritis victims had also had the skin lesions a few weeks before their painful joint swellings began. Subsequent investigations revealed that the skin lesions, arthritis and many other ailments...
...came close to authorizing optional grading for students who desired it. Says American Politics Professor Karl Lamb: "If you have both systems, the grade, which is much easier to give, will drive out the evaluations." Adds his faculty colleage John Dizikes: "The narrative evaluation system is part of a cluster of things that help us take teaching more seriously. I believe it's a superior system...