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...over a period of weeks, even months. They fear that after absorbing half a dozen or more American strikes against missile-launching silos, command-and-control bunkers, and other critical "nodes" in the network of their political and military leadership structure, the Soviets would still be able, in the jargon of nukespeak...
Bigger does not always mean better, and parts of the new version are unnecessarily long-winded and could be chopped. In particular, descriptions of some of the fighting, though gripping, are hard to follow: the reader is sucked into a vortex of almost incomprehensible battlefield jargon...
...weapons inexorably race out of control. "There is a systematic tendency to underestimate future costs," he said. "Deepseated structural problems need to be addressed." Within the building where he has worked for ten years, Spinney noted, "everybody is fighting to save their programs." His words often lapsed into Pentagon jargon, but his point was clear: "Planners become desensitized to cost growth over time...
...mysterious portrait that onetime associates sketch of L. (for Lafayette) Ron Hubbard, 71, founder and guiding inspiration of the Church of Scientology. As proclaimed by Hubbard, Scientology is a religion that sees life as a relentless struggle to erase painful mental images (called "engrams" in the cult's jargon) that block a person from achieving his full potential and that may accumulate through his successive incarnations. Hubbard has insisted that he lived through a series of incarnations and that he was in fact 74 trillion years...
Unlike most of the recent prophets of economic decline, however, Bluestone and Harrison take an explicitly radical view of the current recession, its origins, and its impact. The result is a sobering--if somewhat jargon-laden--account of the effects of factory closings on working people. In shocking detail, the two economists show that high unemployment has led not only to desperate migration, but also to poor mental health, higher infant mortality rates, and community disintegration...