Word: automaticism
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"No sound of an explosion was heard," Ochiai continued. "The ceiling above the rear lavatory came off. The automatic O2 [oxygen] masks dropped down at the same time, and the prerecorded announcement [on use of the masks] started."
Once again, Nehme Yafet Street in West Beirut was a battleground. Gunmen from rival Shi'ite Muslim and Druze militias crouched in doorways and fired bursts from automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades into the darkness. Four floors above the fierce firefight, Terry Waite, the special envoy of the Archbishop...
The four men who commandeered the Italian liner received prison sentences that ranged from four to eight years. Two days after the proceeding, it was learned that the youngest was only 17 years old and would have to be retried in a juvenile court. A fifth defendant, Mohammed Issa Abbas...
Most difficult of all will be navigating the murky waters of the Gramm-Rudman Act, the jerry-built scheme adopted last month that mandates automatic reductions in federal spending if necessary to reach specific deficit-cutting targets. The tumult caused by this unprecedented measure, whose constitutionality is under challenge, will...
In all probability, Reagan's proposed budget will be even more irrelevant than previous ones. For the past four years, even the Republican leadership on the Hill has been unwilling to bring up Reagan's bud get plan for a floor vote; instead, Congress immediately set out to write its...