Word: dust
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Well, sure. Something has happened to the American psyche, even in the highest tax brackets, that has given Detroit a jolt of renewed self-esteem and left foreign manufacturers struggling in the dust. Even looking backward, it is not clear why. Maybe the baby boomers, grown thick in the waist, were bored with being sensible. Without any question--the brief dawn a few years ago of the tiny, puppyish Miata sports convertible aside--cars had grown tedious and indistinguishable. A Lexus or a BMW or a Mercedes said, "I've got mine, and I'm rich." A Volkswagen Golf...
Today, our Reverend Mother welcomes back/Her wisest scholars, those who understood.../Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil/Amid the dust of books to find her.../But these, our brothers, fought...
...first is an understanding of the technology involved, the easy availability of which has been demonstrated by innumerable high school science whiz kids. The second component is actual fissionable material--55 lbs. of enriched uranium, say, which would be enough to turn the heart of New Orleans into radioactive dust. With the increasing use of nuclear technology around the world and the destabilization of Russia, the once stringent global controls on uranium and plutonium are increasingly being subverted. U.S. intelligence officials admit that a terrorist would have no more difficulty slipping a nuclear device into the U.S. than a drug...
...Scheiber was already worth several million dollars, but it was hardly reflected in her life-style. Paint was peeling from her apartment walls. Bookcases were caked with dust. "She was a product of the Depression years," says Fay. Her father suffered substantial losses in the property market. "She felt she had to live on her meager pension and Social Security. She never spent any of it on herself." She kept some money in savings accounts, but Fay encouraged her to invest in money-market funds and tax-exempt bonds. By the early 1980s her cash flow from interest and dividends...
...contrast, America would slip into economic decline, joining Great Britain in the dust-bin of history, two has-been nations destroyed by the foolish economic policies of the Left...