Word: flatten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Flatten the bottom half of your toothpaste tube--just like it says on the back of the box--so you get the maximum amount of paste per tube. After all, at nearly $1.50 a shot, toothpaste is really expensive. You wouldn't want to be wasteful, especially when there are children in Africa starving for extra toothpaste...
What seems abundantly clear, though, is that the quick-reacting computerized market is faster and more brutal in punishing corporate managers who make mistakes or whose company or industry is badly positioned. But some experts also feel that, over time, the volatility introduced by program trading will flatten...
...assigned to hit Colonel Gaddafi's compound, and four of them dropped 16 laser-guided 2,000-lb. bombs. The hope, said a senior Administration official, was to "turn the barracks into dust." The bombs cratered the compound, blew out windows and caved in a wall, but did not flatten any buildings. Gaddafi was probably safe in his underground bunker when the planes broke off the attack and headed back out to sea. One F-111, apparently hit by antiaircraft fire, never made...
...officials were frankly surprised there were not more casualties in Gaddafi's compound. Of the five bombers assigned to hit it, four dropped 16 laser-guided 2,000-lb. Paveways. The bombs cratered the compound, blew out windows and caved in a wall or two, but they did not flatten any buildings. Gaddafi's tent was still standing, only slightly grazed by a fallen utility pole...
...last week's show of force somehow seemed contrived, it was partly by political necessity. In the nuclear age, particularly after Viet Nam, the U.S. is perforce muscle-bound. It may have enough firepower to flatten the globe, yet Presidents are understandably loath to use force except under the most tightly circumscribed conditions. There is public opinion to worry about, as well as Congress and nervous allies, not to mention the Soviet Union. Even the Pentagon, still smarting from Viet Nam, is chary of waging war without unequivocal support...