Word: technician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Loved Women is Bertrand (Charles Denner), a provincial French lab technician who guiltlessly pursues a life of one-night stands. Like so many of François Truffaut's melancholy comedies, this film deals with the impossibility of monogamous love: Bertrand sleeps with dozens of women because he knows there is no one woman who can offer him complete fulfillment. Eventually he writes a memoir about his exploits-a Story of Adele H. in reverse, one might say-and dies happy...
...than a minute-but impressively accurate. Comparing their results with those obtained by conventional means, Dr. Joseph Chadwick, director of the health-systems program at SRI International (formerly the Stanford Research Institute) in Menlo Park, Calif, concluded that the machines are "more consistent than a well-trained blood-pressure technician...
...occurs immediately after the tightened cuff is slightly released. The major difference is that the precise moment of maximum flow, when the heart is pumping hardest-represented by the upper, or systolic, blood pressure-and that of minimum flow, or diastolic reading, are not determined by a doctor or technician listening for the coursing blood with a stethoscope pressed against the forearm. Instead, that job is done by a tiny microphone in the cuff, which sends its signals to the machine's miniature "brain"-tiny silicon chips or microprocessors. Programmed to recognize the noises, the microprocessors not only instruct...
With a whirring of gears, a set of spools turns, unrolling a sheet of printing paper against the negative. The technicians meanwhile spread the patented Polaroid chemical reagent-a viscous mixture they call "goo"-onto both sheets simultaneously. After passing between a pair of rollers, the sandwich of photographic papers is raised, by rope and pulley, toward the ceiling. Then the sandwich is lowered to the floor, and the negative is lifted off, revealing the huge full-color print. "It's nothing but a small Polaroid process made larger," says Technician Peter Bass...
...main complaint against Rivlin is that she is too publicity-conscious and sometimes goes beyond her $52,500-a-year job as staff technician and seeks to influence policy. The CBO, with its staff of 208 economists and other specialists, was set up to analyze tax and spending options in all areas, from defense to welfare, and assess costs and probable impact on the economy. As a result, Congress can now set spending ceilings and sometimes even cut appropriations to stay under them. At the same time, the legislators can keep a close watch on individual spending programs. Before, Congress...