Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...missile through its ceiling and raise it to a 50° firing angle. Spaced at about 6,000-ft. intervals, the shelters would be far enough apart so that a Soviet warhead that destroyed one of them probably would be too far away to seriously damage another. To be certain of knocking out 200 MX missiles, therefore, the Kremlin would have to fire warheads at all 4,600 shelters, which would so strain the capability of its arsenal that it would have few warheads left for anything else...
Despite the bellicose rhetoric, Commonwealth leaders remained relatively optimistic. Zambia's Kaunda implied that the Patriotic Front's reaction was little more than posturing, explaining: "Just now, various parties must react in a certain way." His colleague, Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, said flatly: "The Patriotic Front [leaders] are going to a constitutional conference called by the decolonizing power." Nyerere suggested, however, that the British government might have a much harder time getting the Muzorewa-Smith bloc to the conference table. Snapped back Mrs. Thatcher: "If Julius Nyerere can deal with his problem," i.e., producing the guerrilla leaders...
...KEPT rolling, on and on, like a juggernaut out of control. Traumas and ecstasies and illusion and disillusion, friends and lost friends, and then I heard someone call it "an emotional roller-coaster." While the most certain and directed subjects approached the maze with unswerving confidence and determination, others cried when they had to decide on their field of concentration, on their course selections, on what play they would audition for, on what publication they would "comp...
...wolf was still scrounging around the square with his friends looking for some raw meat, though, and his trustful scent brought him to the frenetic source of his curiosity. PCP was the freshman craze in certain Harvard Yard circles, and lots of it was being eaten. This was the stuff that high school health classes warn you about nowadays, but only three years ago it was an unknown frontier. Animal tranquilizer. The stuff they feed to sick and maimed horses before they are put out of their misery...
...activities, about your psychotic roommate who threatened your life--you're much better off approaching a middle-level bureaucrat on his own turf than shooting too high. These men tend to share a thorough competence in their fields, and a willingness to help students as long as they accept certain ground rules...