Word: obvious
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With the built-in obsolesence of the proposed Strategic Defense Initiative acknowledged by the DOD's own intelligence agency, the absurdity of Star Wars becomes increasingly obvious. Escalation of the arms race into space offers no viable solution to a world in search of a lasting peace. In the end, this nation will have to rely upon something more substantial than technology to remain leader of the free world...
...usually the University's spokesman and troubleshooter on touchy corporate issues. Students, in turn, have frequently blamed him for a variety of the University's evil-doings--from investment policy to a pre-Cambrian attitude toward labor relations. SASC directed its report at "the Steiner Committee," and it seems obvious that that committee's activities were conceived with student protests in mind...
There are ways for Harvard to help Black South Africans. The first and most obvious is divestment, which has been endorsed by an overwhelming majority of Blacks in South Africa as well as most major Black leaders in that country. Conversely, Harvard's internship program has been denounced by representatives of the United Democratic Front, the African National Congress and the South West African Peoples' Organization as well as South African student leaders...
There are other obvious similarities between Stallone and the Harvard Establishment. It will be recalled how the Harvard Establishment gladly sent off Blacks, Hispanics, and working class white kids to die in Vietnam, while their pampered children enjoyed the luxury of a "safe" upper class education back at home. Meanwhile, where was Rambo while America was losing the war in Vietnam? Stallone, according to Jack Newfield, "ducked the draft during the Vietnam War (although he looks physically fit to me)." It seems Stallone went to an elite private school in Switzerland, then from 1967 to 1969 studied acting...
...city's South Pier. Everything was carefully choreographed: a stream of local entertainers kept the crowd's attention until Marcos, looking drawn, tired and weak, was escorted to the podium. The President joked about rumors that he had suffered a physical collapse, and dismissed reports of his obvious ill health as so much "black propaganda." Wife Imelda by his side, Marcos then made a fervent pitch for support as a bulwark against the growing Communist-led insurgency that is stalking the country. Said he defiantly: "Once a champion, always a champion...