Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet-designed "radio-frequency quadropole" device is a crucial element in the neutral-particle-beam weapon on which research is now being ( conducted at Los Alamos National Laboratory under the Strategic Defense Initiative program. The device is used to focus and accelerate atomic particles...
March 7, 1988:1000 students sign a petition urging the University to remain neutral during the union campaign...
Ellen Goodman recently reported a "debate" over the legitimacy of astrology on PBS's MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, and I have heard Dan Rather proclaim that "astrology has been given a new legitmacy," as if it were a neutral fact. I think this new boom in superstition is bad news of the first order. Television coverage of late has been limited to interviews with psuedoscientists and their devotees, who naturally are gleeful about the recent turn of events. The press seems afraid to point out how stupid a belief in astrology is, how discredited a "science...
There have been no reports since April 8 of Iraqi air strikes on Iranian oil tankers, the type of attacks which have provoked Iranian retaliation against neutral vessels...
...star in Ruthless People (revenues: $72 million) and Outrageous Fortune ($53 million). Dreyfuss appeared again in Stakeout ($66 million) and Tin Men ($26 million). Robin Williams, who had made two bombs at other studios, hit big with Good Morning, Vietnam. Says he: "Jeffrey ((Katzenberg)) picks people in neutral, stalled between phases, and tries to find the right vehicle for them. There's a joke going around that he hangs out outside the Betty Ford Center." But besides recruiting the down-and-out, Katzenberg lures established stars by offering them Hollywood's big opportunity: to direct or help produce their...