Word: mering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Comparing mere numbers of vessels can be misleading in assessing relative strengths. U.S. ships are larger, can cruise for longer periods and have greater battle endurance than the Soviet vessels. Russian submarines are noisier than their U.S. counterparts and therefore easier to detect and destroy. Before firing their missiles, some of these vessels must surface, betraying their positions. The Soviets' sole carrier, the 40,000-ton Kiev (two more are being built), can launch only subsonic vertical-takeoff planes and helicopters, and thus lacks the offensive punch of the U.S. big-deck carriers. These disadvantages, however, do not significantly reduce...
...rights to the Times Syndication Sales Corp., owned by the New York Times Co. Sixty periodicals−30 newspapers in the U.S. and 30 magazines and newspapers abroad−this week began reprinting excerpts. U.S. newspapers were limited to running 15,000 words, foreign papers 25,000−a mere 3% to 5% of Memoirs...
...Children of Paradise. A true epic, deeply compelling, visually unforgettable. Marcel Carne's masterpiece is set in eighteenth-century France, among the clowns, thieves, actors, pickpockets and peasants. It's impossible to do justice to this film in a mere paragraph, this story of three artists (an actor, a mime, and a murderer) who love the same woman, and must cope with their passion and jealousy in startlingly different ways. Carne's characters revel in theatrics; illusion and reality smash into each other, driving each man to the very brink of his art, to the terrifying edge of truth. Jean...
State universities, by contrast, typically charge annual tuition fees in mere hundreds of dollars. Can there be that much of a difference in the quality of education at such schools, versus that at private schools such as Harvard? While it is true that state schools receive grants from state governments to defray tuition costs, it is most questionable whether the amount of such grants even rivals the amount of Harvard's enormous endowment. If state schools can lower their tuition prices charged students, why can't private universities do likewise? It is one thing for a tiny private university...
...Pratt and Robin Lane are more your speed. They'll be giving a benefit for the Boston Clamshell Alliance, those folks who brought you the Seabrook occupation last year and are airing the rerun on June 24, at the Arlington Street Church, starting at 8 p.m. and for the mere price of $4.00 you can feel socially justified by helping the fight against nuclear destruction...