Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prevailing" now often means union scales in cities far from actual construction sites, which boost costs and contribute to inflation...
...each Flight will perform during drill, they are responsible for its scheduling and for making sure attendance is consistent. The mock squadron is staffed and consistent. The mock squadron is staffed and led by a hierarchy of juniors and seniors who have been promoted to ranks that correspond to actual Air Force positions. "It's true that an active duty officer will rarely have to drill," says Bryon Fortson, a cadet corps commander and MIT senior. "But here it's an important part of developing leadership skills, and of nurturing a sense of self-discipline." A Harvard freshman couches...
...like it--are the recipes for that nuclear disaster. Our defense is currently based on a credible nuclear deterrent. The arsenal needed to make good that threat implies, and certainly allows, a nuclear response if the deterrent fails. The "demonstration" explosion scenario merely carries the threat closer to the actual; in case anyone has forgotten Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the reasoning goes, this will prove our willingness to use such weapons. And what if the tanks keep rolling? Certainly the chances are good that such weapons will be used and Armageddon will be triggered. The trouble with basing a defense...
...supplies grow tight during the winter. Indeed, the cushion of excess inventory over normal levels dropped during the summer from 500 million bbl. to roughly 200 million bbl. or so by last month. Energy Analyst Constantine Fliakos of Merrill Lynch now warns that supply and demand could be in actual balance before the end of the year...
...occasion for this glittering gathering of musical talent last week was the 100th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The gala concert, televised in Europe (and to be broadcast in the U.S. by PBS on Nov. 4), was followed four days later, on the actual centennial day, with a performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 on the Boston Common, led by Music Director Seiji Ozawa, 46, before 40,000 listeners from Brockton to Beacon Hill...