Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Generally, the agreement seems to pose no new strategic danger for either side. Its merit is that it seeks to place some kind of cap on nuclear development-even though that cap does not fit very tightly. Observes Edward Luttwak, a Pentagon strategist: "The Air Force and the Navy can keep building whatever they want." So, of course, can the Soviet forces. Indeed, as each side maneuvers for the strongest possible position within the new arms limits, pressures toward a multibillion-dollar race to improve weapons may prove irresistible. By 1985, when the projected pact would...
...countryside you usually start to be old around 50, in my personal opinion," one student who's lived on a commune said, adding that while old women help look after their grandchildren as in the cities, old men generally just sit home if they don't feel fit to farm...
...rich collection of sketches, drawings and furniture done by Richardson and his studio--at the Fogg through December 8--shows how effective the operation was. Richardson's schemes--which often changed in the middle of construction--were always in command, and the details, though left to assistants, always fit in with the patterns of Richardson's work. (Toward the beginning of his career, one F.E. Allen spent an entire week examining the intricacies of Sever, and I suppose the pediments and the cut-brick floral ornaments could hypnotize contemporary dilettantes as well.) The work done by Coolidge, Shepley, and others...
General, the case landed on the desk of William B. Saxbe, the present Attorney General. Saxbe raised no objections to the Bell project, which seemed to fit in with his and Ford's position on using increased antitrust vigilance in the war on inflation. Saxbe cleared the suit with the President three weeks ago, then gave his trustbusters the green light to file...
...Cultures. A decade after his death, the problem of properly dressing Aldous Huxley remains, Sybille Bedford's long, affectionately detailed biography notwithstanding. A man whose 69 years spanned and made the most of a number of literary and intellectual styles, Huxley simply does not fit comfortably into critical readymades. He was born to England's intellectual aristocracy. Thomas Henry Huxley, the great biologist and proselytizer of Darwin's theories of evolution, was his grandfather. Poet Matthew Arnold, the apostle of sweetness and light, was his mother's uncle. On one side, the traditions of scientific humanism; on the other...