Word: partially
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...Even partial disarmament is a remote prospect. However, thanks to advances in weaponry and more efficient management, defense spending, which in the past decade provided the wages for one in every twelve workers, leveled off last year and thus actually declined in relation to the nation's rising G.N.P. The economy is sufficiently resilient to cope with much sharper cuts in the military budget, by increased federal spending for civilian purposes, by tax reductions or, most likely, by a combination of both...
People who have had whiplash accidents sometimes complain of blinding headaches, partial paralysis, dizziness, deafness, blindness-and inability to tolerate alcohol. But because it has been difficult or impossible in most cases to detect physical damage to the brain, lawyers for insurance companies-as well as some doctors-have argued that such symptoms are psychologically induced by the "blow from behind," and are more imaginary than real. Experiments like Dr. Ommaya's go far to confirm the possibility of severe and lasting, though invisible, damage...
...Partial Glossary of Monetary Language...
...best they could achieve was partial success, and it probably would have come even without them. The trouble lay mainly with the British, who ignored their carefully documented reports on Turkish military dispositions, kept Singer waiting in anterooms for three helpless years. Not until his desperate agents managed to hand over the Turkish army code did the British take them seriously, and by that time the invasion had already been planned. When Palestine finally fell to the British, most of the ring's principal members were dead and the Jewish communities decimated. And as Singer had predicted, the survivors...
...went. In three days of whistle-stopping by train, auto, helicopter and frigate in Saxony, Schles-wig-Holstein and on the island of Helgoland, his audiences totaled well over 100,000, not only in rural areas, which are normally favorable to his Christian Democrats anyway, but also in cities partial to Opposition Leader Willy Brandt's Social Democrats. The response seemed to augur well for the campaign strategy Erhard's advisers have urged upon him, which is to mute his attacks on the Social Democrats, steer clear of elaborate matters of foreign policy, and present himself...