Word: myriads
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Among the myriad problems that will face the President when he returns to Washington next week is the very real chance that he might lose some of the budget cuts he has won in Congress. Some in the Administration, worried about the 1982 deficit, have urged Stockman to prepare $15 billion or so in contingency cuts and to introduce them when Congress returns from its vacation. Reopening the budget reconciliation process, however, could permit restive House Democrats to renegotiate their concessions. Any restoration of domestic spending cuts will make Reagan's military spending increases all the harder to finance...
That portfolio included close-up views of the gaseous planet's stormy clouds, where equatorial winds rage at 1,100 m.p.h. It provided the first real look at the myriad small, icy worlds that are the planet's moons. But its most remarkable pictures were those of Saturn's rings. Formed out of rocky, icy fragments ranging in size from dust particles to boulders as big as apartment buildings, they totaled more than 1,000 in all. Astonishingly, some rings were twisted into what looked like braids of hair. Others contained patterns that resembled spokes...
America's military security depends in part on its ability to respond quickly to unexpected challenges. As the TIME staffers assigned to this week's cover story on the U.S. military discovered, reporting on the vast and myriad dimensions of the nation's armed forces often called for the same sort of responses...
...DEPTH--and the myriad valid justifications--suggests that surmounting the bitterness will be hard, much harder than stretching out some mythical, folksinger hand of brotherhood, much harder than pinning a green ribbon on the lapel, much harder than announcing that you will begin to consider Blacks for faculty positions--even with the best intentions. "We are, by reason of the lives we have led, a suspicious people. We are the children of suspicious people, as were our grandparents and their grandparents. This has been so with us even back to those people most of call foreparents. Now, if we think...
...Myriad evils--officers bent on promotion, industrialists bent on profit, generals bent on status, and politicians bent on re-election--all do their part to plague the American military. Fallows contends. He lays the bulk of the blame for weakness, though, on two phenomena: The Pentagon's affection for unbelievably expensive and ludicrously ineffective high-tech weaponry, and the manpower problems that have developed since the draft was halted...