Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discussed. It is that SALT limitations were expressed in terms of numbers of delivery vehicles at the precise moment when the increase in the accuracy and number of warheads caused numerical "equivalence" to be more and more beside the point. With each side possessing the capability (the Soviets' actual, ours latent) of making its opponent vulnerable, arms control after a decade of negotiations had returned to its starting point...
Over the long run, and in that big battle for the international market, Chrysler will need help from other automakers to survive. lacocca talks of plans for a new corporate entity he calls Global Motors. Rather than a megacorporation formed from actual mergers between car companies in different parts of the world, he envisions a setup in which Chrysler would undertake joint ventures with foreign manufacturers to get economies of scale or low-cost labor or design or technological expertise. The combines he talks about do not sound so different from the one GM and Toyota announced last month...
...novel's reference to Harvard events appear equally self-conscious. Each professor is a "great," each incident a "milestone." Some allusions, such as the thinly veiled representation of an actual incident involving two drug distributing psychology professors, are intriguing; others merely smack of Harvard "vanitas." Consider Sarah's revelations-or hallucinations-in the field of chemical engineering...
...percent decline in world energy consumption would result in a five percent decline in OPEC production. But, if all the decline is borne by OPEC as the residual supplier, then a 5 percent decline in the total leads to a 50 percent drop in OPEC oil. The actual drop in OPEC oil production since 1979 is somewhat more pronounced than this example would suggest (about 55 percent versus about 3 percent for total world energy consumption) because non-OPEC oil production has been climbing during this period...
...insipidity ("Do it my way/ Take the sly way/ Don't sit dreaming/ Don't by scheming") and a few jarring mistakes ("My lordship"). And the occasional intervals of equally forced dialogue sit strangely among the arias. But once you adjust to the production's apparent aim--to showcase actual, civilized musical finesse in this outpost of barbarity--it's impossible not to appreciate the success of the endeavor. The grown-up world does have its charms...