Word: scale
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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WHEN BORDER DISPUTES between Iraq and Iran flared into full-scale war last week, with each side bombing the other's oilfields, the rest of the world stood to one side. Spurned equally by the Arab socialists in Iraq and the Islamic revolutionaries in Iran, the United States could do little besides urge an end to hostilities, and for the moment, the Soviet Union appears to desire the same...
Inhabiting the fourteenth floor of Westinghouse headquarters by Pittsburgh's Momanghela River, Market Research and Analysis (MR&A) serves the corporation's Power Systems Company, the branch that manufactures nuclear energy systems and other large scale equipment. MR&A's responsibilities run the gamut from publishing the corporation's major planning document to dealing with all brands of public relations...
Since the agreement, air, ground and sea hostilities have escalated into what Iraq state radio termed a "full scale war" with each nation reporting it has inflicted heavy damage on the other...
...artist did not, however, attempt to incorporate the sculpture into the architecture of the building. While Miss was interested in exploiting the unique quality of the space itself, she did not want to compete with the existing architecture. Hence the sculpture's somewhat ungainly appearance; in scale (over 20 feet high) and in the vocabulary of its forms (steps, platforms, walkways), the piece seems to conform to an architectural setting. Yet Miss prohibits this fusion of art and environment. The piece is asymmetrical; its axis runs perpendicular to the entranceway of the museum, and the horizontal elements are not aligned...
...evolutionary terms, the rapidity and scale of this chemical creativity are frightening. Through the ages, most of the earth's varied organisms, from single cells to plants, animals and early humans, usually had ample time to adapt to the pace of natural change. They evolved protective mutations to meet the gradual shifts in the earth's vital balance between acids and alkalines, in the salinity of water, in levels of oxygen in the atmosphere. But man cannot patiently wait through the centuries for his body to develop a genetic defense against these chemicals if, indeed, such a defense...