Word: paving
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
California Chief Justice ROSE ELIZABETH BIRD at the University of California, Davis: "You should concentrate on what you are doing now, and if you do it well, things that you want will happen in the future. I think that no matter how much material success you may achieve, you pave the way to disappointment if you set up your five- and ten-year goals and say to yourself, 'By then I want to be there.' We are here, I believe, to achieve wisdom and live ethically. And if we can look upon the journey of life as a learning process...
Nakasone had hoped for a surge of support from his party's power brokers following the seven-nation economic summit in Tokyo last month to pave the way toward an unprecedented third term. Instead, he was widely denounced for his handling of the meeting. His vaunted friendship with President Reagan produced no progress on stabilizing the yen, which has risen more than 30% against the dollar since September, cutting into the competitiveness of Japanese exports. After lobbying for rigid caps on currency fluctuations, Nakasone reluctantly went along with the other summit leaders and agreed to a vague system of monitoring...
...connecting these complex medical discoveries to an actual cure is another matter. Harvard researchers hope their work will pave the way to either a vaccine, which would keep people from being infected, or a drug, which would help kill or control the AIDS virus. Their work is also devoted to developing tests to catch people who are carrying the virus and determining how many of them will actually get sick...
...they flew to within 30 miles of the Libyan coast, weapons-systems officers (called whizzos), who sit beside the pilot on each F-111, went into action. They lowered the Pave Tack pods, which began sweeping the horizon first with radar and then with infrared cameras, transmitting fairly detailed pictures of the ground below to a radar-infrared scope that is like a small television screen on the aircraft's instrument panel. The whizzos knew what to look for: before taking off from England, they had thoroughly studied aerial- reconnaissance photographs of their targets. In addition, information to find...
...bombs are released to drop in a controlled fall. Then, in what is called a toss, an evasive maneuver to avoid damage by the explosion of his own bombs, the pilot suddenly takes the plane up to about 1,200 ft. Though the plane is wrenching upward, the Pave Tack system, mounted on a device that can swivel 360 degrees , keeps its laser eye on the target all the while...