Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became the Malagasy Republic in 1958. "So you are going to drive to Tamatave? Voila. You will find the road is bad. I will tell you why. First, because we do not have money to do all things at once. Second, because if we improved the road, people would use it and the profits of our railroad would be reduced. Third, because the sooner we improved it, the sooner it would be torn up and the sooner we would have to improve it again. Voil...
...Along with radiation, critics of the reactor program are alarmed about the effects of thermal pollution on marine life. The problem is that nuclear plants use cool water from rivers and bays, then return it hot. All steam-generated plants require cooling water-as do many other basic industries-but reactors can use as much as 35% more water because they use heat less efficiently than plants fueled by coal or oil. Heat decreases the dissolved oxygen content in the water, makes existing pollutants more toxic, disturbs the reproduction cycle of fish and spurs the growth of noxious blue-green...
...Gradually the teacher steers the children into talking about what is the use of a hierarchy in the first place. "The system keeps the peace," she suggests. The hour ends with a spirited game in which one team of children defines the characteristics of each member of a baboon troop, and then another team tries to guess where the individual described fits into the baboon hierarchy...
...Voters. Back in 1948, Traynor spoke for his court in voiding California's law against interracial marriage on the ground that it violated the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed-19 years later. In 1955, Traynor held that California police could not use illegally obtained evidence in court, a rule that paved the way for the Supreme Court's later extension of that standard to all the states in Mapp v. Ohio (1961). Rulings by Traynor entitled both sides to examine one another's evidence before a criminal trial. Traynor...
...bring about such reforms, as well as to prosper politically, Smith made use of his own boundless energy and still legendary powers of persuasion and phrasemaking. "I could run on a Chinese laundry ticket and beat your bunch any time," he once snapped at a hostile Democratic boss. He also could call on quite extraordinary mental abilities -among them a phenomenal memory for detail and a dazzling intuitive grasp of administrative structures...