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...yesterday's meeting, Hiatt and three other experts told the president that the casualties of even a single megaton explosion in Washington, D.C., would overwhelm the majority of the area's medical facilities. "In addition to which all the hospitals would be gone," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hiatt Meets Reagan On Nuclear Threat | 12/15/1981 | See Source »

...struggle began when Africans were packed into slave ships, where, even after being kidnapped, chained and beaten, they choose again and again to face the firearms of the whites. Sometimes their spirits, resolve and sheer numbers would overwhelm the enemy, but more often than not, they failed. Yet whites on those vessels admitted that the Africans never conceded and would always renew the battle. But once out of sight of the African shore, suicide remained as the only truly viable form of protest for the soon-to-be slaves; though starvation and drowning seem to be passive actions of giving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Telescope of Dreams: Upstream | 11/14/1981 | See Source »

...Collectively, the plan was to run as a team and overwhelm the opposition, taking advantage of our superior knowledge of the course," the coach said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Dominate Ivy Championships | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...restoring the death penalty. "She worked interminable hours and read everything there was," says Democratic State Senator Alfredo Gutierrez. "It was impossible to win a debate with her. We'd go on the floor with a few facts and let rhetoric do the rest. Not Sandy. She would overwhelm you with her knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brethren's First Sister: Sandra Day O'Connor, | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...tough sentences, often make little distinction among crimes; for example, judges are forced to lock up shoplifters and forgers along with murderers and armed robbers. Contends Norman Carlson, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons: "The knee-jerk response of many legislators in passing harsher sentencing statutes threatens to overwhelm our corrections system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prison Nightmare | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

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