Word: easiest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Convincing the nation that an ultraexpensive rearmament program is necessary and deciding on its approximate size were the opening, and easiest, steps in getting the buildup going. Now comes the far more difficult job of making hard choices about exactly what that mountain of money should be used to buy?and what ought to be bought first...
...going to have to resolve this. The easiest way is for people who didn't serve in those years to come off this pretentiousness of moral commitment and realize that the guys who went to combat are the ones who suffered the most. They are also the ones who gave the most." For that reason, Webb believes, the Viet Nam vets "in the aggregate are probably the strongest people in their age group...
That is not the easiest thing to do, since Oblomov spends the first half of the film either in bed or resisting efforts to get him up and moving again. The absentee owner of an estate that is going to pot (as he is), he first nodded off in the midst of a career in the tsarist bureaucracy, and all attempts to interest him in alternative occupations cause him to pull the covers more tightly over his head. Oblomov has seen the future-industrialization, go-getterism-and decided it doesn't work...
...Halem's color graphic terminals "is designed to play information from the shuttle in a format that is easiest for the ground controller to read," he said. If either the shuttle or the fuel tanks go astray and threaten to land in populated areas, "my display will light up and warn the controllers" who may then elect to destroy them, he added...
...Street refuses romance. The power of the film lies in its very recognition of the powerlessness which people face, when the explanations for death are too easily found in race and when this history of racial prejudice becomes so much a part of us--it becomes the easiest defense we can muster. Sadly, the cliches too often come true, especially in Boston and Cambridge. Egleson makes no pretense of solving the dilemma for this neighborhood. There were no guard railings on the roof the night the boy fell; there are none to restrict people's behavior when it comes...