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...think shoulder pads would protect against that problem, but the pads Harvard wore last year had "floating" cushions over the oft-injured areas, cushions which tended to float away at the wrong moment...
...Weinberger skirted the question of how much is enough and offered no suggestions about the best way to deploy U.S. forces to counter Soviet military might. He failed to address questions that are being asked by military experts, such as whether the U.S. really needs to float a 600-ship Navy or whether it should concentrate more on building up its ground forces against a power that is essentially landlocked...
Whatever else it accomplishes, last week's intervention may mark a new epoch in global monetary relations. The currency gyrations since 1973, when the U.S. and its major trading partners abandoned fixed exchange rates and allowed money prices to float, have disrupted international finance and trade. Regular intervention would make volatile swings much less likely. Says Robert Hormats, an Assistant Secretary of State in the first Reagan Administration and now a vice president of the Goldman Sachs investment-banking firm: "What we are seeing may be the beginning of a new era--one of managed rather than freely floating rates...
...ASATs can reach only satellites flying in low orbit, a few hundred miles high. Reconnaissance or "spy" satellites are < vulnerable, since they hug the edge of the atmosphere for a closer view of earth, but most early-warning and communications satellites--the ones used to fight a nuclear war--float out of harm's way as high as 24,000 miles. Unless, that is, even more effective satellite killers are developed...
...darkling imagination that results in some chillingly effective music. A Haunted Landscape employs an amplified piano and an exotic battery of more than 45 different percussion instruments to paint a vibrant picture of a ghostly landscape, whose desolation is heightened by a recurring set of string triads that float eerily by. One of the most startling of the new orchestral scores, A Haunted Landscape was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and premiered last year...