Word: complementation
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...same time, there are definite advantages in a joint organization. The two universities have different strengths, and working together they tend to complement each other. More important, because of the Joint Center, Harvard and M.I.T. are not directly competing for graduate students and faculty in these areas...
...staggers into the air carrying 6,000 rounds of machinegun ammunition and 14 rockets, or a "Hawg," a version of the Huey, which packs 48 rockets. Since last September, when Hunt arrived in Viet Nam, his outfit, the 197th Aviation Company, has suffered eight dead-out of a total complement of 160 officers...
...amount of hemming and hauling could help them hide those inches above the knee. Sometimes it does not seem they are even trying. Recently imported from Paris, the short, short skirt has been gleefully adopted by the avant-garde among U.S. teen-agers and coeds as the perfect complement to patterned stockings and leather boots-usually white. From San Francisco coffeehouses to Manhattan discothèques, girls are beginning to reveal more thigh than they have stocking to cover, and American males are scrambling for the best vantage point...
THIS week's cover story might well have been an Essay were it not for Artist Boris Artzybashefr's compelling fascination with the unhuman condition and his gift for rendering machines as covers. To complement his study of the care and feeding of a computer at work, the cover slash depicts a segment of five-channel, punched paper tape used to get man's message (known as "input" in the new vocabulary) into the machine. The story throws new light on how pervasive the computer is becoming in our society, but it also makes clear that...
Three Texas businessmen have mounted him on an air-conditioned 2½-ton truck with white aluminum walls enclosing a swiveling barber chair and the usual complement of up-to-the-minute accoutrements, including a television set. Mobil Barber Shop is what they call it, and the original idea, launched last week in San Antonio after a survey of housewives, was to specialize in children - thereby saving mothers the chore and possible embarrassment of escorting them to that last bastion of masculinity, once known as the tonsorial parlor...