Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fireball to incinerate other warheads) and a flood of radiation (highenergy gamma and X rays, plus neutrons, which would wreck a warhead's electronics). The blast would also produce the deadly vacuum characteristic of all thermonuclear explosions, destroying almost all the atmosphere in an incoming warhead's path and effectively ending its maneuvering ability. Any warheads surviving these multiple perils would probably be burned up by frictional heat as they plunged earthward at more than 5,000 m.p.h. through dust and debris. Under its worst-case scenario, the Pentagon figures at least 70 of the MXs would survive...
...second industrial revolution," said Chen, "some kind of optimum government policy will be vital in guiding the path of economic development." Chen argued that most Asian nations are still groping to find that policy. In South Korea, too rigid government planning has led the country into several unsuccessful ventures like automobile manufacturing. The crucial task for governments, said Chen, will be to seek out a course that is neither too lax nor too heavyhanded...
...YEARS OF LYNDON JOHNSON: THE PATH TO POWER by Robert A. Caro; Knopf; 882 pages...
...election to fill a vacant Senate seat (overconfident of victory, he allowed an opponent to falsify more returns than he did) and headed off to war, a 33-year-old Navy officer. Thus, nearly 800 pages after this saga begins, L.B.J. has barely set foot on the Path to Power. Does the world really need another endless tome about Lyndon Johnson...
...yearn to return to our little village Where every blade of grass understood Hungarian." Home, it seems, can also be divided, which is probably essential for a species whose fundamental dilemma can be described as simultaneous needs for mobility and a sense of home. For nomadic herdsmen, an endless path becomes-home...