Word: fibers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walks like Charlie Chaplin in slow motion and, when excited, breathes like an asthmatic piglet. He wants nothing more in this world than a faithful pal, unless it is to return to his out-of-this-world home. Cynics will insist he is made of aluminum, E.T. steel, fiber glass, polyurethane and foam rubber, but this is a small matter. The larger truth is that E.T. emerged from a sweet communal dream: of fellowship, loyalty, ordinary heroism, unfettered fun. He is every child's secret best friend, every adult's reverie of the innocence that was, once upon our time...
...underground communications centers, housing the vital electronics for firing and controlling the MXs, would be similarly shielded, relying on fiber optics and lasers rather than conventional wiring to resist the devastating effects on electrical circuits known as electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from nuclear blasts. To clear the way for the missiles, giant, hydraulically powered blades would rise out of the silos and sweep away obstructing rubble. Once launched, the MXs would be traveling much slower than the incoming Soviet missiles. Thus, as they rose through the cloud of dust and debris, the buildup of heat on their exteriors would...
Bishop James Crumley, the L.C.A. leader, says, "There have been few times in my life when I have felt this kind of elation: a thrill in every fiber of my being. I fully expect the new church to be realized." Problems still remain, however. Though the churches embrace the same creeds, there are some differences in organization. Also, the L.C.A. belongs to the socially active National Council of Churches; the other two groups...
Pursuing some Western fads requires considerable ingenuity, as well as cash. The craze for boardsailing, for example, has obliged Soviet citizens to build their own, a process that requires the painstaking application of layers of fiber glass over a homemade frame. The materials cost about $140, and some budding capitalists sell their boards for as much as $420. At the Klyazma Reservoir, twelve miles north of Moscow, a 26-year-old graduate student in mathematics showed off his handiwork. "My first board took a month to build," he says, "but once I got the hang of it, I could...
...situation. He portrays post-Vietnam America as a defeated empire in the throes of the fourth major inflationary "Price Revolution" since fuedal times. Much like the people of another economically troubled former empire--Weimer Germany--Americans are anxious, profoundly troubled by a vague sense that their country's moral fiber is unwinding before their eyes. This anxiety is the root of a "radical centrism" among Middle Americans--a revolutionary mood that makes Main Street susceptible to populistic appeals for "decency" and to promises of a mythical good old days restored. Ronald Reagan's skillful campaign rhetoric articulated and capitalized upon...