Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hissey will tell you, the sport that often brings its competitors closer than marriage has reached epidemic proportions in the United States during the last few years...
...Harvard women's volleyball team defeated Williams. 15-9, 15-9, last night but then dropped a closer three-game match to Yale...
...their hypocritical actions, American schools today could produce moral schizophrenics. Basic psychology theorizes that mothers make their children schizophrenic by tempting a hungry child with milk, bringing the child closer, and then yanking him or her away from the mother's breast. Today schools tempt students with tantalizing promises of America's wonderful civil liberties, point bright eyes towards the Constitution, and then say, "No, that...
...cameraman, Hiro Narita, lies in understatement that does not imply dispassion. Ballard and his masterly crew of film makers have reimagined a corner of the natural world, metaphorically connecting the cold spaces and indifferent silences of a vast land with the heated struggle for existence taking place closer to the ground, nearer to their cameras. They leave us awed...
...closer analysis, however, "build-down", rather than reducing the chances for a nuclear war, actually increases the likelihood. The core of the proposal simply flies in the face of established deterrence theory. The main problem lies in the projected trend for land-based missiles. "Build down" would decrease the current force by almost half, from 1.050 missiles to a total of 100 MX's plus 500 yet-to-be-designed Midgetmen. The number of warheads on these missiles would decrease less from 2.145 to 1500 Reducing the number of missiles (i.e. potential targets) more than the number of warheads compounds...