Word: detecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of TIME'S economists detect that the Administration is cutting big and small federal programs extremely sharply to hold down the budget deficit and take some heat away from rising prices. Still, Carter's aides are probably underestimating the size of the deficit. A recession would pull down tax receipts and increase federal spending on unemployment compensation, food stamps and other social programs. While the White House officially maintains that the 1980 deficit will be about $30 billion, some of TIME'S economists expect it to approach $50 billion. The problem will continue into fiscal...
...most physicists' reckonings, protons have a mean life of around 10,000 billion billion billion (10³-²) years (more than half of them will disintegrate in that time). Thus out of 10³-² protons, only one is likely to decay each year. The problem: how to detect that rare disintegration...
...engines that were designed originally for the canceled B-l bomber. This would enable these FB-111s to fly into the U.S.S.R. faster (at 740 m.p.h., vs. 450 for the B-52) and more safely at low altitudes. The FB-111 would be more difficult for the Soviets to detect, hi part because it shows up as a smaller radar image than the B-52. What might prevent Allen's project from taking off is its price tag: $6 billion...
...cameras that can take pictures at a scanning rate of 100,000 sq. mi. per hr., making it possible to monitor military targets anywhere in the world. Most important are the Blackbird's ELINT-electronic intelligence-gathering functions that are also known as "ferreting." SR-71s can detect hidden objectives by interpreting electronic signals at extremely high altitudes. In addition, Blackbirds carry a long-range, side-looking radar (SLAR) that can spy deep into foreign countries without actually crossing their frontiers...
...nation's attitude toward Catholicism but also in the Catholic Church itself. Yet for all the non-sectarian exuberance that the Pope excited, he came to the U.S. at a moment when the deeply rooted issue of anti-Catholicism had been stirring with signs of life. Some Catholics detect a new wave of the old bigotry. They see it not so much in America's residual nativist sentiment as in a certain liberal, intellectual contempt for the church's conservative approach to certain issues: birth control, homosexuality and, above all, the morally painful matter of abortion...