Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Army and Air Force bases of New Mexico believe that the Tularosa Basin is ideal for a major spaceport. In its northern sector is a vast, bare alkali flat with 100 sq. mi. of almost perfectly level surface, made chiefly of gypsum (natural plaster of Paris), which is firm enough to support the world's heaviest aircraft. Most of the basin's few inhabitants are already connected with military space activities and are eager to see the region regain the importance that Canaveral took away from it. Even the small cities beyond the basin...
...bare facts are grim enough...
...Jordanian government has asked Harvard to accept a restriction. But those who proudly oppose Harvard's participation on this ground should be prepared to look with equal pride upon the refugees living in hovels upon a bare subsistence diet. They might remember that these conditions will persist indefinitely unless projects like Jarba succeed. Yet if the project does succeed, the opponents of Jarba will have the privilege of saying, "I oppose this: it was built with un-Jewish labor...
...intricate as a piece of Brussels lace, La Générale controls 10% of Belgium's economic life-including one-third of its steel and coal production, three-quarters of its nonferrous metals output, and chunks of its banking, electricity, transport and armaments. With a bare 17% of its investments. La Générale also controls at least half the economy of the Congo and, by cooperating with all of that nation's disputing factions, still manages to prosper...
...target country. Exploded under two miles of water (at the aggressor's will and from great distance), a 20,000-megaton bomb would stir up a wave whose crest would still be 100 feet high after it had traveled 200 miles. It would wash most coastlines bare and ride far inland...