Word: control
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another dry run for doomsday. A captain and a first lieutenant of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces simultaneously turned two keys that would, in wartime, send hurtling toward the U.S. an SS-19 ballistic missile with six independently targeted thermonuclear warheads. Watching from a corner of the cramped underground control center was a tall, droll Yankee naval officer who describes himself as a "country boy from Oklahoma": Admiral William J. Crowe, 64, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and the highest-ranking American military official ever to visit the U.S.S.R...
...voluntary exile. Other participants doubted that, however, assuming that Savimbi would want to stay on the scene to keep UNITA alive as a political movement. The biggest obstacle to a final agreement may arise if Dos Santos remains determined to preserve Angola's Marxist one-party system and his control of that system...
...intense solar observations should provide clues to many of the still unanswered or only partly resolved questions about the sun: Does the solar cycle affect terrestrial weather? What internal mechanisms control the cycle? Is the sun growing cooler? Hotter? Is there a basic flaw in the current theory about the fusion process that powers the solar furnace...
...major beneficiary in the balloting was Constantine Mitsotakis' conservative New Democracy Party, which won 145 seats, just six short of control in the 300-seat Parliament. The New Democrats campaigned on the promise of "catharsis," which included investigating and prosecuting political bigwigs implicated in several cases of alleged fraud that involved millions of dollars, including the embezzlement of more than $210 million from the Bank of Crete by its former owner George Koskotas...
...Last week Avon Products announced that it would stop such experiments. Even Ralph Nader, the quintessential business basher, has adopted a more moderate approach. Nader, who last fall led the California revolt against excessive auto-insurance premiums, recently cited the auto industry and its suppliers for their joint quality-control efforts. Firestone, for example, allows automakers to inspect its plants and equipment...