Word: complementing
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...rapid intervals through the gaps between the ties of the railroad or the leaves of the trees creates an intolerable succession of bright and dark reflections. When I wrote to Detroit about this, the manufacturer replied ". . . We hesitate using darker colors on the dash because they do not complement the decor of the other trim...
Orland M. Scott, vice-president and group executive of IBM, said the scientific activities of education and industry must complement each other. Calling IBM's contributions "modest" compared to those of the Harvard Faculty, he said that university scientists are able to carry on more theoretical research than their commercial counterparts who are committed to immediate, practical results...
...Committee should also discuss the Sophomore Standing Program, which at present is clearly inconsistent with the concept of general education and which conceivably could be abolished if the Gen Ed program were expanded. An alternative would be to have advanced standing sophomores take the full complement of Gen Ed courses while reducing their concentration requirements...
...vehicle for genetic information. Watson and Crick hypothesized that the two strands of the molecule were complementary, that is, that the arrangement of groups on one strand determined the arrangement on the other. Thus, if the strands were to separate, each might be able to form its complement if the necessary components were available, and in this way two identical DNA molecules would result...
...establishment in the West, the Times plans to stay an Eastern paper. Times news bureaus in San Francisco and Los Angeles will continue to work for New York, and not for the Western edition. At the new headquarters in Los Angeles, all but six of the 82-man complement are technicians or circulation...