Word: mering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past decade Soviet troop levels (excluding border guards and internal security units) have grown by 800,000, to 3.9 million, while U.S. forces, at 2.1 million, are at their lowest since the Korean War mobilization. In the meantime, the Russians have developed seven new intercontinental ballistic missiles, v. a mere one for the U.S., and have outproduced the U.S. since 1972 in tanks (5.9 to 1), tactical aircraft (1.9 to 1) and artillery pieces...
Schoolboy Terrorists. For the moment at least, Smith is still talking peace. Last week he declared that he would now seek an internal solution with moderate representatives of Zimbabwe, the black nationalists' name for Rhodesia. Argued Smith: "Why should a few thousand terrorists, the majority of them mere schoolboys, call the tune to 6 million basically peaceful and peace-loving Africans?" To demonstrate good faith, his government prepared to announce the repeal of discrimination laws, specifically the Land Tenure Act, which restricts the 6.2 million blacks and 271,000 whites to roughly equal halves of the land...
...have a good deal of pertinent information from evolution and from epidemiology. To molecular biologists who have seen one deep mystery after another in other areas of biology settled by the extremely hard data that their field provides, the evolutionary considerations that I shall invoke may seem like mere hand-waving. But in this light nearly all of Darwin's arguments, based on inferences about the past and not on verifiable experiments, could be similarly dismissed. And I would remind you that Darwin's theory remains the most profound and unifying generalization in biology: it is enormously supported today...
...Giscard d'Estaing. At a massive, brilliantly orchestrated political rally last month, Chirac took personal command of the Gaullist party with the clear aim of replacing Giscard as leader of the government's parliamentary majority (TIME, Dec. 20). For a while Giscard loftily dismissed the ruckus as mere subaltern political maneuvering. But last week Chirac flung down a challenge to the President's authority and prestige that could not be ignored: he announced that he will run for the newly enhanced post of Paris mayor against Giscard's own hand-picked candidate...
...buys a new Rolls-Royce every year and maintains a yacht in Majorca -Laker keeps his business operation lean. A staff of fewer than 20 works out of a modest ten-room block at London's Gatwick Airport, where the boss's own office measures a mere 10 ft. by 12ft...