Word: constant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that makes the light from stars appear to twinkle. The excimer laser beams would have to be bounced off mirrors in very high geosynchronous orbits over the equator, meaning that the mirrors would always hover over one spot on the earth's surface, to give the mountaintop stations a constant target to aim at. The geosynchronous mirrors would detwinkle the beam and reflect it to "battle" mirrors in low earth orbit. The battle mirrors would aim the laser beam at missiles or warheads. The mirrors would have to be gigantic, as much as 90 feet in diameter for the geosynchronous...
Year-round training, swimming laps while most other students sleep, spending summers away from home and being weighed down by the constant pressure to produce-is it all worth...
Margaret Sanger defined liberation in a different way--as the struggle to have freedom from constant childbeating With a choice between abstention from sex and complete dedication to motherhood, women could never be truly free Sanger, having seen the proliberation of unwanted babies and the horrendous effects of sloppy abortions on New York's East Side, began the fight for the availability of female contraception Sanger brought the diaphragm to the United States and opened a clinic in New York an offense for which she spent 30 days in fall. Throught her efforts knowledge about birth control became widespread...
...final exam in a rough but enjoyable course. The whole brief experience revolves around the week-long foreplay, foreplay, the loud ubiquitous hoopla perfected by Kentuckians years before the networks even started researching it. Barbecaes, races of everything from riverboats to hot-air balloons, beauty contests, and constant parties follow one another with dizzying speed and profusion. By the time the frazzled and usually drunken Derbygoer makes it to the Big Event itself (which comes, by the way, after a full slate of seven or eight races) he mostly feels a vague desire simply to get it over with, although...
...step toward political equality. In addition, the underpinnings of apartheid, which lie both in the abhorrent treatment of non-whites in the workplace and in the community, will gradually be undermined. Through their presence in South Africa, American business, with the direction of concerned shareholders like Harvard, exert a constant and realistic force which the South African regime will, in time, be forced to satiate...