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Meanwhile, the development of new weapons continues. A new "Binary" weapons delivery system is in the works. Binary munitions are actual bombs containing two harmless chemicals that when mixed during the flight of the missile, create a lethal gas. This system makes the transport of chemical weapons less hazardous, but its simplified technology might allow other countries to manufacture chemical weapons...
They didn't score because Sailer turned in her best performance of the season. The co-captain played center boulder in the rock-hard Harvard defense which rendered 16 UNH drives harmless and allowed the Wildcats only four shots off 14 penalty corners...
...Jersey, as well as farms and woodlands that hide chemical waste sites: "Hazardous waste does not always look ugly. Quite often these dumps are neat rows of beautifully colored drums shining against a gorgeous, air-pollution sunset. We found too that some of the most photogenic slime was harmless. We had to get precise shots of the right slime...
...indulging his visceral anti-Russian sentiments and his combative, provocative personality in public. During a trip to China in 1978, he challenged an aide to a race up the Great Wall, saying, "Last one to the top has to fight the Cubans in Ethiopia." It would have been a harmless joke, except that the Soviets as well as some State Department officials were already quivering with anxiety about the anti-Soviet overtones of the trip, and the reporters gathered round were sure to overhear the quip and make news out of it. They...
...other, more serious, half of the problem lies in the book's format. Broder says he wanted to let his politicians speak for themselves-and do they speak. The author's confidence in his subjects' political futures may be partially born out by their mastery of the Harmless Generalization, the Well-Intentioned Cliche and the Uncontroversial Piety. Normally a tough and inquisitive journalist, Broder lets answers like "If you look at the history of Western Civilization, the facts are pretty clear that man's progress is accelerated in periods when...we allow markets to allocate resources," (Rep. Phil Gramm...