Word: arrays
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...response to this dazzling array of horrors, I have thought up numerous ways to protect myself. An easy way to stop the "where are you from?" ordeal dead in its tracks is to say "Latvia." If they persist, demanding "Then where did you get that accent?" "Djakarta" and "Where did you get those teeth?" are personal favorites...
According to court papers made public last week, Treholt stands accused of handing over a wide array of secrets, including details of Norwegian and NATO air-defense systems, as well as reports describing the defense of Norway's strategic border with the Soviet Union. Some Western intelligence officials fear that his activities have been highly damaging to NATO...
...Star Wars. The Administration wants to increase research funding for the SDI from $1.4 billion this year to $3.7 billion in 1986 and spend a whopping $30 billion during the next six years. Because a space-based defense system is still highly speculative, the research encompasses a dizzying array of technologies, like electromagnetic "rail guns" to fire projectiles at extremely high speeds across hundreds of miles of space and particle accelerators to hit a missile with a stream of atoms traveling near the speed of light...
Leaving Britain behind, if only for a couple of days, might also have contributed to Thatcher's sunny mood. Ten years after she became head of her country's Conservative Party and nearly six years since she assumed the post ! of Prime Minister, Thatcher faces a daunting array of problems. Britain's unemployment rate of 13.9% is the country's highest since the Depression. The pound, worth $1.44 a year ago (and $2 in 1981), sank to $1.07 last week. A miners' strike, which has cost the country an estimated $3.8 billion and divided the nation, will go into...
Since its birth in 1966, Southern Living magazine has carved a successful niche in one of the nation's fastest-growing regions. For its 2.3 million subscribers, most of them upper-middle-class homeowners, the hefty, colorful monthly (258 pages in the March issue) offers an array of service articles on home design and decoration, gardening, food and travel and entertainment, all with a Southern slant. Says Emory Cunningham, chairman and president of Southern Progress Corp., the magazine's parent company: "Our mission is to give people in the South a sense of pride in being Southern...