Word: musts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spacecraft and fatally riddle the body of an astronaut in half an hour, planners envision an onboard shelter into which the crew could repair as soon as a solar-flare warning was sounded. One idea is to build the shelter with the heavy-walled oxygen and water tanks that must be brought along anyway. Soviet scientists are experimenting with generating strong electrically charged fields around the spacecraft. These would have an effect similar to that of the earth's magnetic field, deflecting the speeding particles around the ship...
Another basic element of Dukakis' world view is a moral sense that U.S. policy must be based on the "fundamental decency and values of the American people," rather than on a hard-nosed, realpolitik approach to strategic interests. In this regard, he is reminiscent of Jimmy Carter, which could be a source of trouble. That is evident in Dukakis' emphasis on human rights in the Soviet Union and elsewhere, and it underlies his vigorous opposition to Reagan's approach to southern Africa. Dukakis argues that the most important source of America's influence in the world, and of sustained domestic...
...cover. But then, this picture's soul is located 400 miles south, in the Los Angeles movie industry, where metaphorical backstabbing is business as usual. "It's not a rip-off," says the slasher auteur about his latest film. "It's a homage." That must make The Dead Pool a homage to every action thriller since Little Caesar. It is also, with its clued-in cynicism and some snazzy repartee, maybe the best movie ever directed by a man named Buddy. And it surely proves that when it comes to sulfurous star quality, the genie was right...
...legislation had not even come to a vote when Republican Senator Phil Gramm of Texas implored his colleagues to repeal it "in a future year." A future nonelection year, Gramm might have added. The Senate, a third of whose members must face the voters this year, was about to pass a broadly popular bill requiring plant owners to notify workers 60 days in advance of closings or wholesale layoffs. Despite Ronald Reagan's threatened veto, 19 Republicans joined 53 Democrats to forge a 72-to-23 victory. With that lopsided vote, the bill's supporters can easily override a presidential...
...possible that the Navy does not track civilian air traffic in the gulf region -- particularly regular flights like the 655, which must have appeared on U.S. radar screens hundreds of times before? The answer seems to be simply that nobody thought it necessary to do so. The Navy is just not used to operating in the half-war, half-peace atmosphere of the gulf, where harmless passengers and deadly enemies all whizz through the same cramped airspace. The Aegis system is designed for the open seas, where Pentagon planners mistakenly thought that wars would be fought...