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Walk into John Andrews' Tampa law office with a disposable Bic lighter, and Andrews will truly dispose of it -- on the spot. Andrews is one of several attorneys who have brought a growing number of negligence suits against French-owned Bic since 1981, charging the firm with manufacturing a hazardous product...
...action even in the non-nuclear stage of a war, and especially at the moment of transition to the nuclear stage, through the use of antisatellite weapons, space mines or other means. Many key land-based ABM installations will also be destroyed. The use of ballistic missiles with lighter warheads and solid-fuel missiles with decreased boost-phase time will require an excessive increase in the number of SDI space stations...
...shall begin with the last worry. Space-to-ground weapons do not appear very promising to me. Missiles deployed on space stations would have much lighter warheads than ground-based ballistic missiles of comparable cost. Moreover, the space stations and any devices launched from them would be very vulnerable to pre-emptive attack, and lasers capable of igniting fires at a distance of 100 kilometers (some 62 miles) or more must be extremely powerful and are not very reliable. But the main argument advanced in favor of the package approach is the potential of SDI against reduced Soviet ICBM forces...
...minutes later, Harvard senior Tim Barakettbroke out of six-game goal-scoring slump withanother Crimson power-play lamp-lighter. The 3-2lead would hold up the rest of the way, givingBarakett his 10th game-winner of the year...
Walking out of Lamont 10 minutes after arriving, John Y. Kim '89 said, "I'm going to do some lighter reading outside. Then, I can have the best of both worlds. I can get some work done and enjoy the balm...