Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every day I see firsthand cancer victims who have had the maximum of "accepted treatments" and are desperately seeking Laetrile. These poor souls not only have their cancer to contend with, they have the devastating side effects of the accepted treatments too. That is why there is a rebellion against the irrational stand of the medical bureaucracy...
...network, largest in the world. Some 6,000 radar installations stretch from Murmansk to Vladivostok for early detection of a U.S. attack. The Soviet force of 5,000 interceptor aircraft includes 200 formidable MiG-25s, known as Foxbats, which have a top speed of 1,800 m.p.h. and a maximum altitude of close to 80,000 ft. In addition, the Soviets have about 12,000 surface-to-air missiles-low-level SA-3s and SA-6s and high-level SA-2s and SA-5s-at more than 1,000 sites...
...though it held him prisoner, the government found it difficult to bring him to trial. In Turin, Curcio and 52 others faced charges of armed insurrection (maximum penalty: life imprisonment). The Red Brigades responded by assassinating a prominent jurist; the trial was thereupon postponed. When the distinguished septuagenarian president of the Turin bar asked to aid in Curcio's defense, he was shot to death near his office. Curcio, who demanded the right to conduct his own defense, declared that the lawyer was a "collaborationist of the regime" and had been "executed." As the Turin trial was rescheduled...
...with six other convicts. All were run down and seized, the last 31 hours after Ray. And Ray's capture-out in the rugged hills, on his own, just as local officials had predicted from the start-deflated speculation that the assassin had escaped from Brushy Mountain, a maximum-security fortress set down in the wilderness, with outside help...
...Alaskan wildlife. Some sectors of the pipe are flexible enough to withstand earthquakes that register 8.5 on the Richter scale-greater than the devastating 1964 Alaska quake that destroyed 30 blocks of downtown Anchorage. The entire system can be shut down in ten minutes if the pipeline breaks. A maximum of 50,000 bbl. can spill; valves at various intervals can be turned to stop the flow...