Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...risks. The company can no longer compete across the board with GM and Ford by building car models in every size and price category. It remains burdened by $2 billion in long-term debt. If it should falter ever so slightly, it could again be plunged into a financial abyss. Says GM Chairman Roger Smith: "The jury is still out on Chrysler. It all depends on the product they introduce and whether they can sell...
...whole Middle East is an abyss of injustice...
That seems to be Reagan's principal position too. This shared willingness to talk may be, at least for now, as significant as the substantive abyss that separates the two sides. That point was stressed by one of the Administration's most ardent hardliners, Eugene Rostow, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Said he: "Arms control negotiations are not bargains among peasants haggling over the price of potatoes. The two leading nuclear powers should do whatever is possible to help lift the cloud of war from the horizon.'' -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Erik...
...world cannot stare too long at an abyss; the abyss stares back, or simply grows boring. We revert to our customary sins. We do our violent business as usual. Fish gotta swim. War is flourishing-between Iran and Iraq, between Israel and the P.L.O., in Cambodia and Afghanistan. Since the bomb fell on Hiroshima, mankind has fought roughly 125 wars (of one sort or another), including the longest one in U.S. history. But all of these collisions fell short of the nuclear. They thereby seemed weirdly permissible: as sins, venial, not mortal. They were not, after all, the utmost...
...serious arms control. He regards such remedies as little more than aspirins administered to a patient with a life-threatening illness. In his view, the very existence of nuclear weapons carries with it the unavoidable possibility of their use, which in turn would very probably topple us into the abyss; therefore nuclear weapons represent an absolute evil, an ever present threat of total death embedded in the political life of our planet. Insofar as our traditional ("pre-nuclear") notions of national security and sovereignty depend on maintaining and threatening to use nuclear weapons, those notions are obsolete and, more...