Word: neutralize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...folks at Draper Lab have a cushion between what they see as their work and the reality of nuclear weapons: it's not Draper Lab that decides to build these things, it's the government. The Lab pictures itself as the neutral link between the partisan decision to build nuclear weapons and the partisan decision to use them. And though it depends on whom they're talking to, the Lab would like to deny that their guidance systems steer missiles at all. Draper's security chief did just that, in fact, last August at the trial in Middlesex County Court...
...anti-Soviet clarion call: "It is not an artificial alarm. The free world is shrinking and is in permanent danger." Haig also pleased his Israeli hosts by denouncing the Syrian assault on Christian Phalangists in Lebanon last week as brutal-an apparent reversal of longstanding U.S. policy to remain neutral in the festering Lebanese conflict...
Schlafly also said she opposed efforts to make the Bible "sex-neutral," adding. "I believe...
Heather started at the typewriter, her thoughts now idling, now racing, now shifting into neutral. She had long ago learned that she couldn't write a word in the afternoon, that her thoughts ran smoothly only after 9 p.m., but her thesis was due in 148 hours, and she resolved to try to write at least her conclusion. She glanced at the placard on the wall above her that had "TYPE" in block letters, but its hypnotic effect had long worn off. She adjusted the pillow she was sitting on, thumbed through her notecards, and decided to put some Tchaikovsky...
...this is regarded as welcome, if overdue, by the pro-Western governments in East Asia, as well as most of the neutral ones. Says Hisahiko Okazaki, a top strategist of Japan's Defense Agency: "As we see it, the Americans are coming back. There seems to have been a psychological change in American public opinion, largely in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...