Word: developable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fights next January will be over the second and third spots in the leadership, majority leader and whip; for these posts there is no shortage of candidates, and lively scraps between reformers and old-liners could develop. But it is the Speaker who sets the chamber's pace and tone. McCormack, the last man born in the 19th century to hold top congressional leadership, never made it to high school and never got over the New Deal tradition of a Congress that takes its cue from the White House. Albert, a Rhodes Scholar and affable companion, is likely...
...King established King Resources in Denver to explore and develop oil and gas prospects. Because it was ahead of many big-time oil companies m using computers to make geological surveys, the company soon gained a reputation for cutting exploration costs. King began marketing his firm's cost-cutting knowledge to other companies and individuals. Today King Resources offers complex leasing and development deals for oil, gas, water, lumber and other resources...
Asked about Gazette policy, editor David W. Cudhea '53 said he feels "neither threatened nor coerced" into directing Stafford to turn over, develop, and enlarge hundreds of unpublished photographs...
...fused several tons of bauxite and ceramics to produce high-voltage insulators of unmatched purity The oven could easily fuse other highly heat-resistant materials: quartz crystals for radio transmitters, corundum for industrial grinding stones and zircon parts for nuclear reactors. It could also be used in experiments to develop new space-age alloys, such as special tungsten or cobalt steels, and even materials to withstand the searing heat of a nuclear blast...
...since 1960. But the thousands of patients who live with the devices suffer a major inconvenience: they must return to the hospital every two years or so and undergo minor surgery so that the pacemaker's mercury batteries can be replaced. That drawback has spurred researchers to develop a tiny nuclear power source, to replace batteries, that could theoretically last a lifetime and still pose no radiation danger to the patient...