Word: generality
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...appeals seemed motivated by concern for Pakistan's stability. Since the country was carved out of British India as a Muslim "land of the pure" 32 years ago, Pakistan has had three constitutions and suffered through three military coups, plus repeated doses of martial law. In July 1977 General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, the army Chief of Staff, seized power after aggrieved mullahs and members of the middle class took to the streets to protest Bhutto's political corruption. Zia has moved cautiously to cleanse politics and restructure the nation's criminal and financial codes along Islamic...
...that upwards of $7 billion in military sales contracts with Iran had been canceled by mutual agreement as a result of the continuing strife in the country and spreading Iranian hostility to U.S. weapons sales. The disclosure, which affects some of the nation's largest defense suppliers, including General Dynamics, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, Litton Industries and Textron's Bell Helicopter division, was shock enough. But even as businessmen wondered if additional deals were about to collapse, Energy Secretary James Schlesinger brought up an even gloomier subject: the increasing chances for an outright oil shortage. He warned...
...defense-related activities in Iran are threatened with the loss of business more immediately. Since 1973, the U.S. has sold Iran upwards of $11 billion in civilian goods, everything from 15,000 pregnant Wisconsin milch cows for the Iranian dairy industry to a complete telephone switching system by General Telephone and Electronics. Billions more in long-term contracts, covering such things as housing and highway construction and port development, remain still to be fulfilled by large corporations, including Ford and AT&T. Few if any civilian contracts have been canceled so far, and businessmen hope that socially useful projects like...
Perhaps the most meaningful tribute to Einstein is entirely unplanned: the renaissance of interest in his scientific work. Before his death in 1955 at 76, Einstein had called himself a "museum piece," a fossil who had long since slipped out of the mainstream of physics. Indeed, his greatest work, general relativity, fell into an intellectual limbo. Explains University of Texas Physicist John Wheeler: "For the first half-century of its life, general relativity was a theorist's paradise but an experimentalist's hell. No theory was more difficult to test." Physicists turned to other concepts, mostly concerning atomic structure, that...
...little inkling of this astronomical revolution. Yet to understand phenomena of such cosmic proportions, scientists must rely on his theoretical masterwork: the general relativity theory. Unfolded in 1916 to an astonished and largely uncomprehending scientific community, it is Einstein's complex and subtle yet beautifully elegant mathematical explanation of nature's most pervasive?and paradoxically, its weakest?force: gravity...