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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...return to chemical-weapons production results from more than a decade of Defense Department efforts to persuade Congress to fund so-called binary weapons -- devices in which the two comparatively harmless components of a deadly compound are stored and transported separately. Only when the components combine -- when the shells are fired, for example -- do they become toxic...
...compound of choice around here is diversity, and it's everywhere. Harvard doesn't take a new-math approach to its primary lesson: you learn because you have to learn. When your lab partner is a water-skiing champion, and the guy you eat lunch with happens to be the son of a former governor of some western state, and when things like this happen all the time, you cannot help but learn to accomodate diversity. Fifteen minutes ago I learned that Mel Torme wrote The Christmas Song. Did you know that Mel Torme wrote The Christmas Song? Broadening like...
...however amateur his status as an architecture critic. And they were all the more jarring to Britons who consider their capital the embodiment of cultural sophistication. Yet the Prince had a point. Architecturally, the capital lost its way after World War - II. Shortsighted planners with paper-thin budgets did compound the devastation of the Blitz. The glories of John Nash's Regency terraces, Inigo Jones' Banqueting House, John Soane's Bank of England and Wren's churches were juxtaposed with discordantly cheap, gray cement-and-glass office boxes and grim "purpose-built" public housing that sprouted in craters left...
Though that has been true for the past four elections, the particular dynamics of 1988 compound the effect. It is a period when no war, recession or other single visceral issue dominates public concerns. Most of the dozen active contenders have had difficulty defining policy niches that set them apart from their competitors. Instead they run essentially on the claim that "I am the best." This cues reporters to use ever more powerful microscopes to study the contention. And since campaigning now starts two years before the first caucus, with no real events in the interim by which to judge...
...prison was not considered safe enough to allow firefighters in the compound until about 7:30 p.m., when six fire trucks lined up to go inside. By that time, the fire had spread from the prison industry building but officials released no details on the extent of the blaze...