Word: clearer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that right. At each airport the Federal Aviation Administration's tower chief has the responsibility for closing specific runways or the entire field. Controllers are required to advise pilots of adverse conditions but cannot order them to seek another airfield. The Kennedy crash makes plain the need for clearer standards for determining when wind shear presents grave dangers, as well as tougher guidelines on what course to take when it does...
...pristine studio conditions. Mattey's great white not only had to behave like the real thing but also had to work in a shark's habitat. Imagine King Kong tramping down Fifth Avenue and shin-nying up the Empire State Building, and the problems become a little clearer...
...Ours is not a wicked country, and we cannot abide a wicked government," says Church. He prefers to talk not of "assassinations" but of "murder-a simpler, clearer term." Says he: "The U.S. cannot involve itself in any way in murder. The notion that we must mimic the Communists and abandon our principles [is] an abomination...
...actually damage the domestic economy by throwing thousands out of work. The liberals' central argument was that, as Kennedy said, with 22,000 tactical nuclear weapons stockpiled round the world, "we have nuclear weapons in excess of our security needs." Critics of more military spending also wanted a clearer statement of just what foreign policy objectives all the hardware was meant to support. Other Senators countered that American foreign policy would be ineffective and even impotent without a strong military...
...resources, rented a grungy Upper East Side pad and settled down to construct the Big Deal. Frequent reassuring trips to the Palm Court were necessary. "If things began to cave in or if we were confused, we would rush over there, sit at a table, and suddenly things became clearer," says Errol. Margaux says, "Errol has horns but he's an angel...