Word: intact
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...each stage. No more than, say, 70% might be wiped out during any one phase, but in the end perhaps only 10% or less of the warheads launched would explode on or over their targets. That would cause mass loss of life, but could leave most U.S. retaliatory capacity intact. Boost-phase interception, however, is generally considered to be the key to an even partially effective defense. That is when the enemy projectiles are easiest to find: the intense heat of a missile's rocket thrusters, concedes the anti-S.D.I. Union of Concerned Scientists, makes it stand out "like...
...seconds before the plane would have crashed. The jumbo jet leveled itself, and in a voice one traveler described as "pretty shaky," Ming asked passengers to secure their seat belts. An hour later, the 747 made an emergency landing at San Francisco International airport, on wheels that were intact despite the damage to the jet's underbelly. On touchdown, Ming received a round of heartfelt applause; he in turn apologized for any "inconvenience and discomfort." Fifty passengers suffered minor injuries during the dive, and two flight attendants were hospitalized with back injuries...
...hours before Reagan's news conference, however, Treasury Secretary James Baker told the House Budget Committee that if Congress passed the Treasury plan intact, the President would not sign it. His remarks indicated that the White House is still unclear as to what it wants...
...country. Investment in South Africa is profitable because Blacks have the civil or political rights; foreign investment is there because of apartheid, not in spite of it. Preserving the political and economic supremacy that the oppression of Blacks gave whites--in plainer terms, retaining the present system as nearly intact as possible--is the only way to maintain the current high rate of return on South African investment. Anyone who exposes financial support of the present regime as a means to bring about reform is either easily deceived or willfully deceptive, because it would be financially unsound for any shareholder...
...clock, it has had a long and illustrious history. According to Baybank, in the early 60's an errant truck sidewsiped it, smashing the time-keeper but leaving the post intact. Similar tragedy befell the clock in 1964 when another semitrailer ran over the landmark demolishing both the clock, and its post. In July 1965, the bank reinstalled the clock one more time, but a Harvard Trust's distinctive clock is back in business...