Word: older
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subs will carry 24 Trident I missiles, each with a dozen warheads. The older Polaris and Poseidon subs have only 16 missile-launching tubes aboard; Polaris missiles carry three warheads, Poseidon 14. Because the range of the Trident missile is 4,000 nautical miles, some 1,500 nautical miles greater than the Polaris and Poseidon missiles, the new subs will have a much wider expanse of ocean in which to hide while still being within striking distance of Soviet targets. Moreover, their ability to run faster and quieter than the older subs will make them harder for enemy ships...
...your country can do for you ..." Caputo joined the Marines: "Having known nothing but security, comfort, and peace, I hungered for danger, challenges, and violence." At the end of his three-year enlistment, Caputo writes, "I came home from the war with the curious feeling that I had grown older than my father, who was then 51 ... Once I had seen pigs eating napalm-charred corpses-a memorable sight, pigs eating roast people...
LICHTBLAU: When you decontrol and raise the price of oil, less will be consumed. But whether more oil will be found is not clear. There will be some additional production, and more money will be spent to get secondary and tertiary recovery from older wells...
...support groups for homosexual lawyers, doctors, businessmen, teachers, whatever. A person calling such a group will be put in touch with other gay males or lesbians with whom he or she can arrange quiet dinners and talks about professional or social problems. The organizations are particularly helpful for older gays who have no desire to patronize bars or discos catering to homosexuals, and whose life-style is far removed from the tight-jeans...
...easy. Sure, there was a period of blind backlash in the mid-'70s when a clear career and a six of beer were enough, when students consciously avoided activism and experimentation that could mess them up, the way acid or cops or just rage had messed up their older brothers or sisters or friends. But the Strike and the general revolt against rules of the late '60s have, ten years later, left a conspicuous legacy: increased personal freedom, skepticism about the University's idea that it can stand aloof from the world it studies, and a strong concern among students...