Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from within the company, but is an outsider, Stanley C. Pace, 63, a West Pointer and currently vice chairman of TRW, a high-tech conglomerate based in Cleveland. Pace had been thinking of retirement, but decided instead to take on the tough General Dynamics assignment. Why stay in the fray? "That's a good question," Pace said at a news conference. "My wife asked me that." Lewis approached Pace to be his successor -- the two men have known each other for some time -- luring him with the prospect of being the chief executive of a major corporation for the first...
Other scientists, drawn into the fray by the Alvarez conjecture, have since suggested that a large comet might have similar consequences. Los Alamos Weapons Experts Stirling Colgate and Albert Petschek computed that a comet six miles in diameter hitting the earth would have an effect 100,000 to 1 million times as great as a large nuclear explosion, and would blow a 100-sq.-mi. hole in the atmosphere...
...second battle of the Huwaiza marshes ended much as had the first one a year ago, though the two encounters were otherwise dissimilar. In the first confrontation, the Iranians had attempted to prevail by sheer weight of numbers, throwing thousands of relatively untrained Revolutionary Guards into the fray. This year, by contrast, the assault troops were disciplined and well equipped; they wore boots and carried German-made gas masks. Their aim was to break through the Iraqi defense lines and then hold out against a counterattack, and for several days they did exactly that...
Moments later, Democratic Congressman Peter Kostmayer of Pennsylvania made his own overheated addition to the fray by charging that "there is a lot of Red-baiting going on" over Nicaragua. Snapped Shultz: "I am here at the invitation of the committee. If you want to withdraw the invitation, I have lots of other things...
Other requirements, according to Fletcher: "The computers must be able to operate in a nuclear environment and must be hardened to survive radiation and shock. To keep crucial command, control and communications capabilities out of the fray, some of the computers would be placed in high orbit halfway to the moon." Humans would make the key strategic decisions in advance, determining under what conditions the missile defense would start firing, and devise a computer system that could translate those decisions into a program. In the end the defensive response would be out of human hands: it would be activated...