Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HAMILTON, N.Y.--He is the guardian of the fortress. He is the last man. He is the bullet-proof jacket...
...president is pressure proof on that,"Shultz said on the ABC program. "We are going todo the research and testing necessary to find outif we can defend ourselves against ballisticmissiles. And if we find out that we can, then wehave to be prepared to deploy...
...alcohol takes the worst toll on the liver, where most of the ethanol in the bloodstream is broken down. Because alcohol is so high in calories (there are 110 calories per jigger of 90-proof liquor), the liver metabolizes it instead of important nutrients, a phenomenon that can lead to severe malnutrition. The high caloric content of ethanol also causes fat to build up in the liver, one of the earliest stages of alcoholic liver disease. This is frequently followed by scarring of the liver tissue, which interferes with the organ's task of filtering toxins from the blood...
...mushroomed to 700,000, many of them offering the tenured safety of $40,000-plus salaries. On campus, he claims, innovation and creativity have been subordinated to abstruse research, cranked out to satisfy doctoral requirements or a department chairman's notions of what will advance the discipline. As one proof, the author recalls a Modern Language Association project in which 18 scholars read Tom Sawyer backward to avoid being caught up in the story while they checked how often "Aunt Polly" is written as "aunty Polly...
...observers are suggesting that the Administration needs a staff shake- up. The financial community especially misses Paul Volcker, who resigned last June as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. But most feel that personnel changes would simply generate more uncertainty. They cite Jimmy Carter's mass Cabinet firing as proof that housecleaning usually does not work. "What we need now is stability," says Cheney...