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...behemoth is apparently part of a Soviet effort to develop long-distance, over-the-horizon radar. Its signal, which pulses ten times a second, is four times more powerful than the most potent civilian radio stations; sometimes it is augmented by a smaller transmitter near the Black Sea town of Nikolayev...
...that this country has never ceased to seek, enjoy and perfect. The surest path to our own greater success, and the brightest hope for others, is to remain true to the American tradition−a heritage where reality is a point of departure but never our final horizon, and where ideals ennoble reality and enable us to shape our future...
Gorski said he foresees no job openings "on the horizon...
Despite such disappointments, however, Kiernan's biography of Arafat is a much-needed and helpful addition to Western literature on the Middle East. Although Arafat's star is low on the horizon at this point in time, it is certainly not burned out. Whether or not a "solution" is imposed on the Palestinians, we have not heard the last of Yasir Arafat--and the more we know about his past, the more we can guess about the future of the world's most volatile corner...
...continent invited squandering-and it was not necessarily a paleface invention. Indians of the Pacific Northwest conducted potlatches-orgies of eating, gift giving and the willful destruction of their own property. The more a man could part with, the greater his status. The prairies and the plains were once horizon-to-horizon bison. The animals were obliterated partly to feed railroad workers but mostly for sport or to furnish the rich with carriage robes and the novelty of nibbling on buffalo tongue. Great clouds of passenger pigeons were peeled from the sky with shotguns or simply captured by hand...