Word: encompassing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company's $596 million annual sales, but Honeywell today is as comfortable in outer space as it is in the basement. It is now the world's largest and most sophisticated manufacturer of automatic control systems, turning out 13,000 products so diverse that they encompass a 600 microswitch and a $3,000,000 electronic data processing system. "We pride ourselves," says a Honeywell executive, "on being able to control damned near anything." Every manned space flight, from Mercury to Dyna-Soar, depends on intricate controls made by Honeywell...
Prof. Howe said that because the 14th Amendment refers specifically to state action, a bill based on its "equal protection" clause would not encompass many instances of discrimination which have nothing to do with state involvement. More importantly, he said, Southern states would be given a chance under such a bill for extended obstructionism. "It is foolish to give them (the Southern states) the opportunity for further delay," Howe declared...
...tour of Boston, on July 7, will leave Harvard at 1:45 p.m. and encompass the Gardner Museum, The Old State House, The Paul Revere Home, and the U.S.S. Constitution (Old Iron-sides). Tickets (at $2.25) and further information is available at Matthews Hall 4. The trip will last for about two and one-half hours...
...history of science is part of science. So are its philosophy, its great literature, and its social and intellectual context. The contribution of science instruction to the life of the university and to society should include these elements, since science includes them. A science course so constructed as to encompass these elements makes an important contribution to General Education. It need not by that token make a poorer contribution to an education in science. One can defend the view that it is all the better science for being good General Education." (Redbook, p. 222; not italicized in the original...
...other America, according to Harrington, may encompass forty to fifty million citizens but remains invisible because it is old, young, Negro, unskilled, jobless, itinerant and irrelevant. Unlike the poor of the thirties, the other Americans do not characterize the economic state of the nation. Indeed their suffering is a noncomitant of prosperity, since they have been rendered useless by the very machines that are raising America's rate of productivity. The poor form a huge but politically fragmented and mute group. It thus falls to the socially responsible intellectuals to remind affluent America of their presence...