Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Five years ago Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek unlocked Brazil's treasure chest, hauled out fistfuls of cruzeiros and headed west, into the empty interior. He covered a lot of ground-establishing the new capital of Brasilia, creating an auto industry turning out 140,000 vehicles a year, increasing the gross national product an average of 6% a year, increasing steel production and power output. The trip was expensive: as Kubitschek prepares to clear out of Brasilia's Palace of the Dawn, the chest he leaves is a Pandora's box of fiscal troubles (see chart...
...That Jazz. One of the Examiner's difficulties is a problem that rarely bothered William Randolph Hearst: journalistic responsibility and respectability. In its rip-roaring youth, the Examiner served as a proving ground for Hearst's journalistic shock tactics; it was one of the first U.S. papers to rush reporters to big out-of-town stories by chartered train. But as Hearst aged, the Examiner cooled into the journalistic pillar of his empire-a sober and respected daily that fed its subscribers nourishing doses of foreign, national and local news, frequently played without regard to Hearst prejudices...
Discoverer XVIII's primary mission was another step in the perfection of two space-age military reconnaissance techniques: the Samos system for camera detection of such ground-level activity as troop movements, and the Midas early missile-warning system, which is said to detect rocket firings anywhere on earth by means of infra-red sensors...
...Sullivan, on his Sunday night television show, told the faithful to go out and buy tickets-it was one of the best shows he and Sylvia had seen in ten years. Cantor, 40, a onetime Broadway pressagent, dropped the right word to the right columnist, reminded people that a ground swell saved Billy Budd...
Guessing that Kharos Bank was a submerged piece of high ground, Gargallo sought confirmation from local sponge divers, fishermen and sailors-all of whom casually replied that, oh, yes, there were building blocks visible on the sea bottom at Kharos Bank. Diving alone with an Aqua-Lung in the face of strong currents, Gargallo maneuvered his way along the floor of the bank, which he found strewn with bits of pottery. After ten days' search, at a depth of 40 ft., he came upon scores of rectangular white stone blocks, which he believes to be the remains of Chryses...