Word: infinitum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more warheads (missiles), then conceivably he can knock you out in a first strike. Therefore, in a crisis situation, you could be tempted to destroy your enemy's small number of missiles. If your enemy knows this, he'll be tempted to shoot first. The process is essentially ad infinitum, hence destabilizing...
Meanwhile, network programmers are failing to produce any new blockbuster series. A mini-series like The Winds of War may earn ratings and prestige, but it has a fatal flaw as a piece of merchandise: it cannot be duplicated ad infinitum. The megabit series remains the most efficient kind of money machine, generating huge profits for the network in its initial run and even larger sums for the show's producer when it is later syndicated to local stations: All in the Family stands to bring in about $100 million in syndication fees. This season, Dynasty (Dallas in Denver...
...That august group who stand fearlessly between Presidents and the press, caught in the onslaught of verbal crossfire-announcing, pronouncing, fending, defending ad infinitum, without fear or trepidation for their jobs, their future, and their reputation...
...ENTER TO GROW in wisdom, depart to serve thy "country and thy kind," the gates of the Yard command. "Expand thy ego ad infinitum, and clutter thy house with Veritas collectibles from the Coop," is the message that often creeps out from between the lines. And a lot of people buy the whole business, assuming that they have achieved the American dream merely by happing into John Harvard...
...Corpus Christi the residents seem to like the name just fine. Says Chamber of Commerce Executive Vice President Jimmy Lyles: "We use the English language here and not the Latin language." Meanwhile, the controversy seems likely to go on ad infinitum...