Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pipes said yesterday that the Administration has no specific policy regarding Soviet Jews. "We believe in human rights, cultural rights and free emigration but out actual influence is very limited...
...installation, which Hughes accurately praises, was the work of Stuart Silver, principal design consultant and formerly director of design at the Metropolitan Museum, and Clifford LaFontaine, design associate and project coordinator. Architect Kevin Roche, of Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo Associates, did create the building itself; however, the actual installation was the inspired work of Silver and LaFontaine. We feel it is important to assign credit to them for their splendid achievement...
...draft. The controversial strategic superweapons of the future, such as the B-1 bomber program and the MX missile, will be debated to determine whether the U.S. should commit itself to such huge funding in the years ahead, but even entirely eliminating these two programs this year would reduce actual 1983 outlays by "only" about $5 billion. Operating costs, maintenance, training and ammunition have always been favorite congressional targets because the money buys few jobs in legislators' home districts and outlays drop immediately. But these are exactly the areas that should not be cut; they have been eroding...
...mind about how to base the MX missile, but the Air Force has successfully staged the first test launching of a dummy MX at a site near Las Vegas. The projectile had no propellants, electronics or warhead, but was the same size, shape and weight as an actual MX. At left, the missile is ejected from a canister by steam and gas pressure, a system adapted from submarine missile-launching devices. As the mock-up rises into the air, some of the rectangular plastic pads, designed to steady the missile until it leaves the canister, begin to fall...
...know what the problem is." Klitgaard said of the Nader and Nairn reactions, adding that the disagreements about prediction are not so much about the actual statistics as what admission offices should do about them. Critics of testing recommend eliminating standardized tests altogether, and "try to imply that it makes no difference [in prediction] whether you use scores or not." Klitgaard said Such an approach "masks idealogical value questions in a scientific aura," he added...