Word: technician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William A. Steiger, 36. Often mistaken for a page during his freshman term on Capitol Hill, this energetic Republican has matured into a masterly legislative technician. A fourth-term Congressman from Oshkosh, Wis., he was elected to the statehouse after his 1960 graduation from the University of Wisconsin and at 28 won a seat in the U.S. House. A leading advocate of the volunteer army, Steiger sponsored the Occupational Safety and Health...
...hero, a 35-year-old civilian technician named Stringer, is attached by the terms of a lucrative contract to a special Army unit. His task: to plant sensing devices near an enemy supply trail so that "smart" bombs can home in on military convoys. He knows how to survive in the bush and is not afraid of spiders or the Viet Cong. But his motivation is uncertain, and this earns him the contempt of his partner, a hard-case Regular Army major named Price...
...this chilling book reached the public, someone with religious or political convictions detonated four car bombs in Dublin and a town to the north, killing 28 people. The event gave special interest to Author McPhee's thesis, which is that right now one fairly skilled technician, using easily obtainable equipment and information, and easily stolen uranium 235 or plutonium 239, could make a nuclear fission bomb. The bomb certainly would be small enough to fit into a Volkswagen, and perhaps into a golf...
...left as a legacy the most distinctive single body of composition in all of jazz. Where he got the gift even he could not say for sure. His father was a butler who worked up to caterer and then became a blueprint technician. As a boy, Duke showed more aptitude for painting than music. Piano lessons were a chore. "Before I knew it, I would be fashioning a new melody and accompaniment instead of following the score," he said. Indeed he never became a virtuoso pianist; his talent was as a leader, arranger and composer...
...technician at UHS once told me, "Stay away from that rugby--it's euphoric, but it keeps me in business...