Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ERRANT IN their path, blinded by the realization that Jimmy Carter is God's personal representative on earth, the authors indulge in baths of high-school psychology. From his childhood in Georgia, little Jimmy carries the entire burden of Southern history to Annapolis, where he grits his teeth for three years. Laboring under the shadow of his father, Carter develops the win-or-die attitude of the killer politician. Crushed by his failure to win the governor's seat the first time around, Carter goes off to find himself, "a star pupil in the self-improvement school...
...most serious injuries occurred in motor vehicles. Most of these victims had tried to outrace the storm, many of them apparently influenced by longstanding federal guidelines that urge motorists on the open road who spot a tornado to try to escape it by driving at right angles to the path of the storm. Ironically, the homes from which nearly half of the auto victims had fled suffered little or no damage. The panel's recommendation: in case of a tornado alert, all motorists, no matter where they are driving, should leave their cars and immediately find shelter...
...regularly and secretly with top executives at each of the three commercial networks, hearing their offers, learning their plans. The process involved quiet breakfasts in obscure restaurants, drinks and dinner in one suitor's apartment and marathon conversations in hotel rooms. "I find myself in a long final glide path," he said last week. "Three runways are stretched out before me. All three are beautiful. I could land on any one and be extremely happy...
...look at the confrontation building up in the Middle East, with the rapid deployment of U.S. naval forces in the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf, we are witnessing just the kind of scenario that experts have long predicted would be the most probable path for beginning a nuclear war. This was recently reinforced by reports of a Defense Department study claiming that adequate defense in the region would require the use of tactical nuclear weapons. We know that U.S. naval forces are armed with short range nuclear weapons, and it is probable that ground forces deployed...
...conducting domestic witchhunts) but Sovietophobia is giving domestic reactionaries and demagogues a field day. We can no longer manipulate the Third World as we once did, and so we have to consider their viewpoint, their interests, in our calculations. Perhaps Marxism offers a better alternative path of development than capitalism. Perhaps the multination corporations are more of a threat to them than the Soviets. Perhaps a multi-billion dollar assistance package, and on their terms, not ours, might best advance U.S. support among the Third World, not to mention contribute more to their welfare, than pumping yet more arms around...