Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cutting their natural levels down to about 1 p.p.m. A 150-lb. man who drinks 1-p.p.m. fluoridated water would have to drink a bathtubful, or 70 to 100 quarts daily, to get the minimum overdose that seems to affect the thyroid gland. The overdoses needed to damage kidney function or bones are still greater...
Anxious Quiet. Following instructions from Houston, Cooper and Conrad worked desperately to rejuvenate the balky fuel-cell system. Neither the automatic nor the manual controls for the oxygen tank heater would function. And getting at the heater itself was out of the question. Located in the adapter section, it was inaccessible to the crew. The astronauts flicked switches off and on again and again, trying somehow to stir the system into life. They maneuvered the spacecraft around so chat its blunt end, which housed the fuel-cell system, would get the full impact of the sun's rays...
Fruit of Humility. Yet despite the tumult and the tremors, India continues to function with a stability rare in Asia. Part of the reason stems from India's diminutive Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, whose modest manner is the very antithesis of the hubris of Nehru. Tiny and turkey-necked, shy as a schoolboy in his rumpled dhoti and brown loafers, Shastri both matches the diminished stature of India and reflects its inchoate strength. By merely surviving for 14 months in a situation that many thought might end in anarchy, Shastri has shown that India has a chance...
...Papa solemnly told Manning, "all the beautiful women I know are growing old." But Manning reports one conversation that sheds somber light on Hemingway's writing as well as on his eventual suicide. Brooding over his high blood pressure and spreading paunch, Papa doubts that a writer can function unless he is in top physical shape. "Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted to say it can lead to fattening of the soul, but I don't know anything about the soul...
...wobbled. "Our old patriarchal form of management collapsed," says Mohn. "We were practically forced into decentralization." With techniques gleaned from U.S. magazines and books and his biennial brain-picking visits to the U.S., he split Bertelsmann into 44 subsidiaries, each with its own boss and its own specialized function, such as printing, warehousing and collecting bills. Delegating with skill, he told managers: "I don't care what you do-as long as everybody in the company provides the world's best solution to his particular problem." Whenever a subsidiary shows signs of a sloppy performance, Mohn himself steps...