Word: atop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adds that many students leave to take advantage of academic or cultural opportunities they couldn't find atop the ivory tower. She also says that most students choose to interrupt their studies after their sophomore year, and the majority only spend a year away from Harvard...
Even when Harvard rolled to a 20-0 lead in the third quarter, the assistant coaches watching from atop the Stadium said pointedly over the headphones. "Remind those guys it's the same way it was last year when they were...
...with the Harvard field hockey squad's 2-0 upset loss at the hands of Brown Satur. day, the Crimson stickwomen have tumbled from atop the Ivy League standings. Their entire season and a first ever Ivy title now hinges on a date at Yale this Saturday...
...double build-down plan still includes Reagan's original START proposal that both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. reduce from approximately 8,500 apiece to 5,000 the number of warheads they have deployed atop long-range missiles. It incorporates the novel proposal that both sides destroy more than one old weapon for each new one deployed as they modernize their forces. Reflected too is the idea that certain weapons are more threatening, or "destabilizing," and should be discouraged. For example, large land-based missiles that carry multiple warheads have the capacity to destroy enemy missiles...
...would have to reduce their overall nuclear arsenals by 45% by 1996. The key to the plan is a new unit of destructive power called Standard Weapons Station (SWS), which was developed by retired Air Force Lieut. General Glenn Kent. In its simplest form, an SWS represents a warhead atop a ballistic missile, a bomb on a plane, a self-propelled cruise missile. Kent's plan includes complex formulas so that oversize warheads count extra. So do multiple warheads that are clustered on top of missiles with particularly powerful lifting capability, known as "throw-weight." The details are still...