Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also when a missile defense is most efficient: a single hit, by a laser beam, for instance, can destroy ten warheads at once. In post-boost and mid-course phases, the separated warheads are vastly more difficult to find and distinguish from decoys. On re-entry, the decoys burn up, and only the warheads continue to plunge through the atmosphere. But if there are, say, 5,000 left out of an original launch of 10,000, they could easily overwhelm any conceivable "terminal" defense. Besides, by then it might be too late to prevent terrible damage. Warheads...
...They would take a woman and burn her." Chorn said after the lecture...
...think she's a victim of overexposure," says Freddy DeMann. Freddy manages Madonna, not Cyndi, and frets - is, in fact, "absolutely worried" - that all the p.r. heat might burn out his client. Now, then. While the ladies play tag with the limelight, a few thoughts occur...
...when Harvard divests or when every university, city town and corporation in the world divests from South Africa. The victory is only won when apartheid has been crushed. And divestiture, by itself, will never bring an end to a system so firmly entrenched as apartheid. Only internal revolution can burn apartheid to the ground, and economic pressure is just one way of striking the match...
Some important safety systems were not working at the time of the accident. Refrigeration units designed to keep the highly reactive MIC cool so that it could not vaporize had been shut down before the accident. Other equipment, including devices designed to vent and burn off excess gases, was so inadequate, investigators hinted, that it would have been ineffective even if it had been operating at the time of the accident...