Word: booklet
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Sharon's plan has been quietly boosted by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, which has issued an English-language booklet titled Jordan is Palestine. The tract purports to show that the Hashemite Kingdom is already effectively a Palestinian state, since its population (2.2 million) is more than 60% Palestinian. In Sharon's view, if the P.L.O. were to take over Jordan with Israel's backing, such a Palestinian state would be more cooperative than one centered on the West Bank...
...game like its innumerable lesser relatives, like its venerable ancestor, pinball, Pac-Man providers the clearest example you'll ever see of the theory of positive reinforcement, negative feedback Do something smart and you keep playing Do something dumb and wham' you have to stop. Buy this shiny little booklet-which looks like the manual they give you with a new T.V. and goes about as deeply into the product's real meaning-and you can go on playing forever...
There's nothing peculiar about buying the booklet either, even if you consider yourself too "pure" to memorize monster sequences and con tips like "Play the corners individually for maximum point potential and downright fun." "For just $2.25 the editors of Consumer Guide can give you invaluable insights on the game's larger implications. Just turn to the "Testimonials" section on the last page where Jim, age 26, high score 115,400, advises...
...reveal their own military data. In one respect, Whence the Threat is even superior to its U.S. counterpart: the Soviets were able to print actual photographs, which are readily available, of such new American weapons as the B-1 strategic bomber and the M-1 battle tank. The U.S. booklet, Soviet Military Power, used artists' renderings of satellite photographs of Soviet weapons. The Soviet effort contains many distortions and a few outright lies. The total strength of the U.S. armed forces is listed at "close to 3 million servicemen," when in fact it is 2,049,100. The Soviets...
Perhaps the most startling charge in the booklet is that "the Pentagon's strategic plans focus on striking the first, pre-emptive blow" in a nuclear war. The exact opposite is true. This assertion is followed by the claim that the U.S. wants to "evade destructive retaliation" by fighting a "limited nuclear war in Europe." Soviet military capabilities, on the other hand, are described as "of a strictly defensive nature." No one who knows the true military statistics will take the Soviet pamphlet seriously, but that is beside the point. The purpose is to deceive the unknowing...