Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...list of cover letters and addresses grows, as the number of recommendations reaches triple digits, I fear for each subsequent page, each subsequent binder. I pray that there is some deadline, some stipulation that makes me unable to qualify for the job. Good, this one is for juniors. This one is for minorities. This one was due yesterday...
...Harvard's potent roster did not earn fear and veneration from the West's best and brightest...
...Bush makes up his mind, skeptical strategic experts are challenging the fundamental assumption: that land-based missiles are as vulnerable as some other experts fear. There is considerable doubt that the Soviets could actually attack U.S. ICBMs with impunity. Studies by the Pentagon suggest that even if the Soviets aimed two warheads at each U.S. silo, they could count on destroying only 65% to 80% of the ICBMs. That would leave at least 400 land- based U.S. warheads -- each packing about 20 times the destructive force of the Hiroshima bomb -- for a counterattack on the Soviet Union. Moreover, the Soviets...
Logic, unfortunately, does not always dictate strategic decisions. Irrational as the fear of a Soviet surprise attack may be, psychological and political reasons alone may push the the U.S. into proceeding with a new mobile missile. As one congressional expert put it, "You can't debate survivability for a decade and then not do anything." It is unlikely that the Senate would ratify a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty that allowed the Soviets mobile missiles unless the U.S. first decided to acquire a comparable system...
...related violence took the lives of at least 30 civilians, including three journalists, two of them killed by army troops. Guerrilla forces effectively paralyzed public transportation and staged several attacks in outlying towns. The vote was thus held down not only by sympathy with the F.M.L.N. but also by fear...