Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will match that of five jumbo jets. Proposed solutions to sideline noise and sonic boom have thus far been less than encouraging. Some scientists have proposed recycling jet engine exhausts to reduce noise. Others have suggested powerful electrostatic fields to ionize and brush aside air molecules before they can pile up and form boom-producing shock waves...
...very start of the information-gathering process, there are inevitable limits. The subjectivity of intelligence agents can easily lead them to ask different questions and thus get differing answers from what is before them, whether the subject is a Viet Cong prisoner or a pile of captured documents. Hilsman argues that the intelligence pipeline is further bent because even good data gathered in the field pass through many channels before arriving at their destination. If the information was not digested, of course, it would be unmanageable. So at each step, it is scrutinized, reinterpreted, perhaps expanded, more often cut down...
...remaining exposed feet. Finally, the shrimps moved in for the kill, puncturing its tissue with their sharp pincers and tearing out large chunks of flesh from the wound. After a full day's feeding, they had reduced the crown-of-thorns to nothing more than a pile of jellied debris...
...country where "People march and protest but they are not heard." Douglas is a firm believer in the sanctity of the law, and he does not call for extralegal political activities, as some of his detractors have suggested he has. But he does recognize that "where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response." Douglas is a staunch defender of democratic institutions, and he shares the concern of Edmund Burke, that the State reform in order to preserve...
Inviting Criticism. Douglas' 97-page volume is a broadside. "Violence has no constitutional sanction," he writes, "but where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response." England's King George III, Douglas continues, was "the symbol against which our founders made a revolution now considered bright and glorious. We must realize that today's Establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution...