Word: path
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...inward to cope with its problems. The idea that the greatness of the country was achieved not on foreign battlefields but by building the society from within has fresh proponents today. But if Brezhnev's successors let the impetus of expansionism carry them forward rather than take the path of internal reform, that may risk...
...three months suffered an almost Hitchcockian invasion of birds. Starlings, perhaps 200,000 at one time, have chosen to winter in a local eucalyptus grove. Major Hal Biestek, a pilot stationed at nearby Travis Air Force Base, lives close to the grove, directly under the starlings' flight path. "It was so loud," said Biestek of the birds' chirps and screeches, "it kept us awake at night...
...Richard W. Tillinghast, who teaches English Cbr's two poetry sections, the road began and ended according to the blueprint. But somewhere in the middle his path took an unusual turn: the road from Cambridge to Cambridge led, not through Oxford, but through radical Berkeley, Istanbul, and Tennessee...
This damn-the-cost loyalty to developing weapons is one of the main reasons that they are so hard to scuttle. In the age of technology, one path to acquiring shoulder stars is nurturing a system to fruition. Upward-bound officers often find themselves allied with contractors in an effort to convince the Pentagon and others that their project should be built. The temptation is to underestimate costs at the beginning. Admits Army Under Secretary James Ambrose: "It almost seems an institutional phenomenon that projects start with gross underestimates by both Government and the contractor...
...76th goal of the year to the Phil Esposito's NHL record for most goals in a single season, a record Gretsky will most likely break in the next few days. Espo was in the stands to see the recordlying goal, and will continue to follow Gretsky's path until the record is broken...