Word: compartmentalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McDonald's has cooked up some popular new products too. Its McD.L.T. sandwich, a lettuce-and-tomato burger packed in a two-compartment box to keep the hot side hot and the cool side cool, has proved to be a beefy competitor to Burger King's Whopper and Wendy's...
The accounts of the famine are excruciating to read. Arthur Koestler, then an ardent Communist, was traveling through the Ukraine by train. He recalls women outside his compartment window holding up babies who looked like "embryos out of alcohol bottles." For soup, people boiled rats, nettles, tree bark and the...
But even before Air Force One reached Washington, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes and Chief of Staff Donald Regan launched a campaign to reverse the downbeat impressions. They urged National Security Adviser John Poindexter to wander back into the press compartment of the plane. "Do you really want me to...
While arguments with the doctors went on, worse things began. On July 3, 1983, Izvestia ran a letter from four academicians replying to Andrei's article in Foreign Affairs, "The Dangers of Thermonuclear War." Though Andrei stressed "the absolute inadmissibility of nuclear war" and called for "complete nuclear disarmament based...
Dr. Joseph Kerwin, director of Space and Life Sciences at the Johnson Space Center, wrote in last week's report, "The forces on the orbiter at breakup were probably too low to cause death or serious injury . . . the crew possibly, but not certainly, lost consciousness in the seconds following orbiter...