Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congress has stacked so many preferential tax options on top of one another that only a few economists and accountants understand the whole. Sweeping as it is, the Mills-Mansfield program would probably result in merely a different mix of such provisions rather than a new tax system...
...agreement allows some shifting in the particular mix of land-and sea-based ICBMS each nation wishes to deploy, so long as the total number of missiles is not affected. But it says nothing at all about how many warheads each missile can contain. Therein lies a huge advantage for the U.S., at least for now. Since the U.S. has missiles that carry up to ten independently targeted warheads (MIRVs) and these systems are far ahead of the Soviet multiple warheads, which fall in a cluster but cannot be individually directed (MRVs), the U.S. maintains an overwhelming edge...
...mines were sown in a random mix: some are acoustic (set to explode upon locking into the sound of a ship's engine), some are magnetic (reacting to steel hulls), while others are triggered by changing water pressure created by a ship's passage. Still other U.S. mines are "counters," which allow a number of ships to pass harmlessly overhead and then explode on, say, the tenth or 15th ship. Thus a Soviet trawler concentrating on clearing one type of mine would run the risk of being blown up by another variety...
Unfortunately, Malcolm's mix of aggressive militancy and brotherly love was to estrange him even further from the Black Muslims and from the white power structure. Malcolm originally attributed the bombing of his home to the Black Muslims, but later said, "This is something much bigger than them. I know what they can do, and this is bigger than them...
...about the planet Jupiter and the color blue if it happens to be Thursday or about Saturn and black if it happens to be Saturday. ("Think black. Your center of zero is black. Now see that black vibrate ... Feel it running up your leg ...") In addition, there is a mix of Egyptian gymnastics, African dances and Hindu mantras or incantations ("Owwwww" or "Ommmmm...