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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nuclear freeze: Precisely because an all-out nuclear war means collective suicide, we can imagine that a potential aggressor might count on a lack of resolve on the part of the country under attack to take the step leading to that suicide, i.e., it could count on its victim capitulating for the sake of saving what could be saved. There must be a strategic parity of nuclear forces so that neither side will venture to embark on a limited or regional nuclear war. Of course I realize that in attempting not to lag behind a potential enemy...
...been told to behave, and you had been reminded of venereal disease as only the military can remind you, and you had been warned about Key West. You had been told drugs were everywhere, but for the last four months you had thought that the only thing you could count on tickling your nose was the business end of a Kalashnikov. They said this was a strange terrain of suspicious sexuality-gays are all over. And they said to watch your self around reporters, who would probably offer to buy you a drink to loosen you up. A sergeant said...
...bird," NASA Chief James Beggs could rightly take pride in a mission performed in what he called "almost flawless fashion." Abrahamson fully concurred, pointing out that Challenger accomplished 96% of its objectives and that there were far fewer "anomalies" than on any previous mission, only 21 by preliminary count. (There were 42 anomalies on the last shuttle flight, in April.) Two of these, however, played a part in the decision not to prolong the flight another day or so in hopes of homing in at Kennedy. They involved some brief, balky behavior by one of the shuttle's three...
...count did not include NASA's own $135 million Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS), which failed to reach geostationary orbit after its launch on Challenger's last flight. Technicians expect to nudge TDRS into proper orbit this week...
Walter Heller, who served as chairman of President Kennedy's Council of Economic Advisers, likes to keep track of the words that his fellow economists and the press use to describe the business outlook. At last count, he had compiled a list of 60 adjectives applied to the emerging recovery. The tone of the list has been changing dramatically. Only six months ago, Heller says, economists were calling the recovery "weak, wobbly, puny, pokey, measly, muted and miserable." Now, however, the rebound has suddenly become "rapid, robust, snappy, surging, brisk, bullish and a barn burner...