Word: guardrail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...collision, and that they might pop open with such force as to injure children. In millions of test miles driven, that just has not happened. The bags do have some drawbacks: they do not inflate twice, so if a car strikes another and caroms off to hit a guardrail or a third vehicle, the driver would be protected against the second crash only if he was also wearing a seat belt. But the evidence seems to warrant making the bags mandatory...
Nobody will ever know what went through the scrambled circuits of Laszlo Toth's brain when he climbed over the guardrail of the chapel of the Pieta in St. Peter's Basilica and started battering with his hammer at the Madonna's resigned stone arm, the folded veil, the nose, the translucent shell of her left eyelid. But one may guess: Toth had lost all power to distinguish between an image and the reality it denotes...
Trends. Still, with 554,200 troops remaining in Asia, the U.S. pullback is hardly a full recessional-and was not intended to be. The fundamental objective of Nixon's plan is to provide a guardrail that will keep the U.S. from being pulled overboard into another Viet Nam-type involvement, yet still protect U.S. allies, and U.S. interests, in Asia. There is doubt that the guardrail would hold in a crisis, but the policy is nonetheless becoming an important reality in Asia. Among the trends accelerating as a result of the Nixon Doctrine...