Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...occasional moviegoer, in addition, is more likely to take a chance on a marginal film if it means simply plunking down $2 or $3 to rent a cassette. "It's much easier to rent a movie you're not sure about and turn it off if you don't like it," says Amy Misner, 33, who regularly picks up cassettes for her family in Atlanta. "It takes a little more resolve to walk out on a movie when you've spent $16 for four people." Renting tapes, however, also takes resolve. The lines at the cash register on Friday...
...nature of the recent assaults. Psychologists who have studied serial killings suspect that the Night Stalker shared at least one trait common to mass murderers. "Once they start to murder, the act becomes habitual," says J. Reid Meloy, a San Diego forensic psychologist. "As it becomes habitual, it becomes easier...
Matters grew even more complicated last week when officials close to the investigation claimed that the FBI had authorized Presser's payments to Friedman and several other ghost employees at Local 507. Washington sources said the FBI reasoned that the phantom payoffs would make it easier for Presser to gather information on Cleveland's organized crime groups. Questions lingered over how much the FBI had told Justice about Presser's secret dealings. The bureau's Office of Professional Responsibility is investigating agents' handling of the affair...
...then boosts the warhead out of the atmosphere and into space. The telescopes in the nose of the MHV pick up infrared radiation emanating from the enemy satellite and focus it on a heat-sensitive targeting device. The device is housed in a small refrigerator; just as light is easier to see from a darkened room, heat is easier to sense in the cold. The jets steer the MHV on a collision course with the target. No explosives are necessary: a satellite orbiting at 17,000 m.p.h. would be shattered by a head-on crash with a 35-lb. projectile...
...target satellite to pass over their fixed missile launch pads, which could take up to twelve hours. The U.S. missile can reach its target within ten minutes of launch. The Soviet rocket takes as long as three hours. Furthermore, the Soviets use a radar homing device that is easier to detect, and thus counter, than the heat sensor employed by the U.S. The Soviets are trying to develop an infrared homing system but their prototype has failed in six tests...