Word: centedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...limited nuclear war victory, the United States may lose a few cities and "x" per cent of the population. But as long as we have more powerful weapons, we can hurt the Russians more. Perhaps Boston was one city sacrificed in the new war of nuclear possibilities. One 20-megaton bomb explodes over the State House. The Prudential Tower, the Federal Reserve Building and all the other familiar landmarks crack like matchsticks under the explosion's force, leaving nothing but rubble in a four mile radious swathe around the epicenter. The flash of light that preceeds the blast destroys Cambridge...
Radioactivity spoils most food and water for weeks or months. Confusion everywhere. Most health care facilities--destroyed. Eighty per cent of the doctors are dead, many of the rest seriously injured. Of metropolitan Boston's 3 million inhabitants, 2.2 are killed immediately, almost everyone else is burned or in shock...
...Services Corporation, handled 1.5 million legal matters in 1980, benefiting millions of low-income people. Most of the issues involved the areas of consumer law, housing law, administrative benefits and family law. These problems may seem routine, but they are of critical importance to poor people. Over 97 per cent of legal services funds are used for the support and direct provision of services to the poor. Contrary to the popular belief of the conservatives, the advice, counseling, referrals, representation and community education currently provided by legal services cannot be replaced by pro bono work of the private sector, regardless...
...tenants responding to the survey, 78 per cent said their apartments are "overheated at times," and 43 per cent said they "experienced wild fluctuations in temperature" in their apartments...
...predicted a time when about 2 per cent of the population will constitute a "technological elite," while the remaining 98 per cent will have "no method adequate to question the experts." Rather, he said, this majority will "sink into the banal amusements that technology provides for that purpose...