Word: intact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...approach the midpoint of this term as President, one of the things that everybody notices, especially compared with some of your predecessors, is that the burdens of the presidency do not seem to have got you down. You really look unchanged. Your optimism and good humor seem to be intact. Is that impression correct? Are you that pleased with the experience...
...haired man of 65, regards himself as one of the lucky ones. "Mine," he says, "may be the only family here with no sons in prison." Saïd is the father of eleven children, six of whom live with him in Ein el Hilweh. His house is virtually intact, though his neighbor's, 20 yds. away, was leveled during the invasion. Said and his family previously lived in Tel Zaatar, the Beirut camp that was destroyed by the Lebanese Christians in 1976. Later he lived in Damur, a Christian town that was seized by Palestinian and Lebanese Muslim...
...Chinese leadership added a provision to the new constitution that enables it to set up special administrative zones with their own rules and regulations. In doing so, it seemed to be laying the legal groundwork to allow Taiwan and Hong Kong to keep their economic systems intact if and when they rejoin the mainland...
...Soviet Union will have built enough ICBMs to destroy, in one blow, all of America's land based missile force. The Soviets will seize this golden opportunity having labored for decades to achieve it) and launch the attack, targeting our land-based missiles but leaving cities intact. With the entire American ICBM force annihilated, the President will have to choose either to surrender, or to retaliate with the remainder of our defenses submarine-launched missiles and bombers--and thus provoke a Soviet strike on American cities...
...were aimed Wind and the electromagnetic effects of nuclear explosions will cause an unknown but significant amount of deflection. There is no military point in having five nuclear missiles land all together half a mile from their target. They would annihilate the neighborhood but leave a properly "hardened" silo intact...