Word: deployable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paper explaining his decision, Reagan conceded with great understatement that "deciding how to deploy the missile has not been easy." He described the Dense Pack plan only as "a reasonable way" to deter an attack. Theories on how the U.S.S.R. might find techniques to destroy the closely spaced MX missiles were dismissed as "technical dreams on which no Soviet planner or politician would bet the fate of his country...
...funds its production. The committee seems virtually deadlocked on the issue. "I think it will be beat, not in committee but on the floor," predicts a key House Republican leader. Insists Massachusetts Democrat Nicholas Mavroules: "Time has run out for MX. The House will not gamble with billions to deploy a system of marginal capability and questionable survivability...
...simply ferocious black comedy. Patricia may be brain damaged but as her father puts it, her body is that of an attractive young woman." a fact certainly not lost on Martin. To be in a position to take advantage of Patricia's obvious helplessness. Martin must first deploy his arsenal of obsequious-schoolboy charm on Mrs Bates("can I call you... mumsey?"). "I love house work its's such a-a peaceful art" he exclaims rapturously, eyes rolling upwards...
...interim" scheme to place the missile in existing Minuteman silos, and it refused to appropriate $1 billion for construction of the first MXs until the Administration could come up with a more suitable basing mode. The Pentagon is expected to recommend "Dense Pack," a controversial plan to deploy the missiles in superhardened new silos very close together. The aim is to protect the missiles through "fratricide": an attacking enemy missile would be able to knock out some U.S. missiles, but then the force of its blast would disable the other incoming ICBMs. Dense Pack, known to its detractors as "Dunce...
...been so absolute or cruel that he could not find some major artist, a Rubens or a Titian, a Velasquez or a Bernini, to fawn on him for a suitable fee. It is the nature of carnivores to get power, at which point, having disposed of their enemies, they deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make them look like herbivores. Stalinist socialist realism was merely the end of this process, carried out by hacks. After it, the more intelligent of the Beloved Leaders would want radio and TV, not painting, to be their cosmeticians. We must thank Melamid...