Word: airings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SINGAPORE. Its small army of 30,000 is by far the finest in non-Communist Southeast Asia. Both the army and air force have an impressive armory, including 75 AMX-13 tanks, 530 personnel carriers, 60 155-mm howitzers and 103 modern combat aircraft. Though Singapore is spending over $400 million a year on its tough little army, one U.S. specialist notes that "it doesn't have that much to offer in terms of quantity that would make the difference...
...long, cigar-shaped drone dropped from a B-52 bomber, spread its stubby wings and began whipping around an oval course 100 miles long and 30 miles wide at speeds up to 500 m.p.h. So last Tuesday began the great flyoff to pick the first U.S. air-launched cruise missile (ALCM), a weapon capable of carrying a nuclear warhead some 1,350 nautical miles and delivering it on target with near pinpoint accuracy. The weapon is designed to boost the nation's atomic punch in the mid-1980s...
...chief of Pentagon Research and Engineering: "We will put these missiles on our radar measurement range and make very detailed measurements of their radar cross sections. The data will be fed into a computer for simulations that predict what kind of performance we will get against different sorts of air defenses...
Synthesizing ideas already in the air is hardly disreputable-Darwin and Marx did much the same thing-but Sulloway thinks that Freud went a bit far to create a myth about his absolute originality. Freud once accused Sexologist Albert Moll of stealing his concept of infant sexuality, though Moll had published his ideas on the subject nearly a decade before. When many observers spotted some of Freud's ideas in the work of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, Freud vehemently denied ever having read the two philosophers before inventing psychoanalysis. Sulloway thinks it unlikely: as a student in Vienna...
...Supreme Court. Administration aides hope that the high court would reject the assault. But there is another problem: many of the quick decisions that the board could compel from state and local authorities would be "no." The board would have no power to amend local clean-air and other environmental laws...