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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rate of proliferation could grow rapidly worse. Small, easily concealed new technologies for producing nuclear explosives are becoming available in world markets. Among them: high-speed centrifuges and still experimental laser systems for enriched-uranium production. Such systems could be engineered to produce the explosives needed to build the Bomb. Says Paul Leventhal, president of the Nuclear Control Institute, a Washington-based think tank: "History demonstrates that in the nuclear field, any technology ultimately is exported -- and Third World countries will...
...POWs home. Insisted Defense Minister Rabin: "I don't feel any moral right to say to a captured soldier and his family that he should be left to rot in prison because the price is too high." In Lebanon, meantime, the instability precipitated by the war continued to grow. Sporadic fighting has been going on for weeks among several Lebanese factions, and last week bitter clashes erupted between the Shi'ite Amal militia and Palestinians. Nobody seemed to know exactly what started the latest confrontation, but the significance was obvious: the Lebanese Shi'ites, the largest population group...
Like Freudians, the Harrises think the most important application of their ideas is to child rearing. The child who is not constantly stroked may grow into an adult who constantly belittles other people to gain some temporary relief from feelings of worthlessness. Early childhood years are so crucial, say the Harrises, that one parent should stay home with a child full time until he or she is able to read. Says their book: "We believe six years off to have a baby is minimal. Six weeks off is tragically short of the ideal...
...little and I put my arms around her and I could feel her body underneath me sobbing and I felt like she was the child. I stopped tormenting her after that. That was the turning point when I knew. I think that made me grow up fast. I knew I could be either sad and weak and not in control or I could just take control and say it's going to get better...
...mortgage loans. Moreover, the Government removed ceilings on the rates that institutions could pay depositors and thus forced the savings industry into competition with commercial banks. Many savings institutions collapsed or merged with stronger partners. Though the number of thrifts has fallen to 3,746, deposits have continued to grow. They now total about $1.1 trillion in 146 million accounts...