Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regular hydrogen bomb ten times its size, and yet cause less damage to nearby buildings (see diagram). U.S. military planners say that small neutron warheads installed on howitzer shells or Lance missiles, which have ranges of 20 and 70 miles, respectively, are the best way to deter or counter the most feared conventional attack by Soviet forces: a massive tank assault across Central Europe. (Warsaw Pact countries have 44,000 tanks compared with NATO'S 11,000.) Said the President: "This weapon was particularly designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the Western front...
...last October, as Europe's most fabled economy slowed. Most important, Schmidt is at odds with his party's left wing, which opposes the government's support for NATO'S decision to place a new generation of medium-range missiles on West German soil to counter the Soviet buildup of its mobile SS-20 missiles. In a period of growing East-West tension, Brandt is nostalgically remembered by the growing number of West German pacifists as the Nobel Peace Prize-winning architect of Ostpolitik, the agreement with the Soviet bloc that enabled tens of thousands...
...first, airport and bus ticket counters were thronged. Amtrak switchboards were jammed. Rental car firms found fewer customers at their airport counters, while at their downtown offices in large cities, fearful air travelers queued up for wheels. International passengers had little choice but to wait out available flights, sometimes camping overnight in terminals. Businessmen turned to corporate and charter aircraft, which was not always an improvement; under the FAA'S contingency plans, such planes had a lower priority than the scheduled carriers. But as the week progressed, even the reduced number of flights held more capacity than the fewer passengers...
Miracle drugs are even more overworked in Third World countries, because they are often sold over the counter, with out a prescription, even though antibiotics can have toxic side effects. U.S. physicians, for instance, know that Chloramphenicol should be prescribed only for life-threatening infections, since it can cause a breakdown in red blood cells. Physicians in Latin America, however, have been urged by manufacturers to use the drug for such minor ailments as tonsillitis and whooping cough...
...plain, neat dresses amplified by age and experience, their thoughts mixing hope and anxiety. It is midafternoon, and dusk is settling on their lives, but as they move up in line they permit themselves to wonder: Is there a letter for me today? The efficient, sympathetic mademoiselle behind the counter nods yes, and watches aging eyes light up-or says, "Hélas, non, madame," and averts her glance from a spinsterly face gone slack. When you send a letter to your love -even if he is a "Dear Stranger" who caresses you through the mail...