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Strong Measure. Republic's proton gyroscope is at present an impractical breadboard model, built mostly of transparent plastic, but even so it works well enough to prove the principle. In a practical instrument, says Milton J. Minneman, head of Republic's gyro project, the coils creating the magnetic...
Final papers have another, more mundane, drawback. The time required to grade them intelligently is far greater than that required for examinations. In some of the College's enormous and understaffed courses, this is quite impractical.
* Britain, Ireland and Denmark have applied for membership. Spain and Turkey have applied for "association," a special limited status, whose terms are to be negotiated separately in each case, which may be granted to nations whose wobbly economics or national obligations make full membership impractical. Greece has already been accepted...
* In fulfilling his obligation, the President is free to pick his confessor (most Catholics confess to whatever priest happens to be avail able) and to switch to another if he does not find him satisfactory. The Pope usually announces the identity of his own confessor, who is currently an old...
Farnsworth raised other criticisms, claiming that fallout shelters in large cities are "impractical." Experience with emergencies, such as hurricanes, he said, shows that "when we are excited we are not going to be able to move large numbers of people from one place to another."