Word: network
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NAWAS, standing for National Warning System, is a civil defense warning network, controlled from North American Defense Command headquarters in Colorado Springs, linking 449 cities, military bases and other defense points by 45,000 miles of telephone lines and microwave radio circuits...
...that nothing worthwhile would be left "afterward," and that its own principles must keep the West from using nuclear weapons, is upheld by H. Stuart Hughes, professor of history at Harvard, a grandson of Charles Evans Hughes and one of the organizers of the Committee of Correspondence, a "discussion network" dedicated to opposing the use of nuclear weapons. By any measurement, Hughes's arguments do not represent a large segment of U.S. public opinion, but they do epitomize much of the moral confusion the West has suffered in contemplating The Bomb. Historian Hughes bases his case on the theological...
...what it said was a new decree soon to come from the government. Under the decree, all children would remain with their parents "until they are three years old, after which they must be entrusted for physical and mental education to the Organization de Circulos Infantiles"-Castro's network of state nurseries. Children from three to ten would live in government dormitories in their home provinces, would be permitted to visit their families ''no less than two days per month." But those older than ten would "be assigned ... to the most appropriate place," and thus might never...
...nnhilde-that competitors ignorantly cribbed). They used a worldwide network of "word watchers"-avid amateurs with Sprachgefühl (feeling for speech), who constantly peruse novels, menus, labels, ticket stubs, and even small-town news paper accounts of obscure murders. The head of Merriam's own shipping department, for example, is the part-time scholar who netted piggyback, as used in railroad freight hauling...
...Clearance. By far the most ambitious single highway project ever to come down the pike is the new million-dollar-a-mile federal highway program, which, by incorporating and expanding existing toll roads, bridges and tunnels, and by constructing brand-new roads, aims at a network connecting nearly 300 cities of 50,000 people and over. At first the cost was pegged at $27 billion, but by the time the members of Congress got finished parceling out special advantages to one another, they had raised the figure to $41 billion and had set in motion something that may well become...