Word: reached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...represented: the fast-growing sport-utility line. Some 732,000 sport-utility vehicles, including such models as the Jeep Cherokee, Ford Bronco II and Chevy S-10 Blazer, were sold last year, offering a new kind of competition to the suburban station wagon. That total could reach 1 million...
...immersion in the details of legislation has blocked the mental leap to a broad-gauge view of national leadership required of a presidential candidate. Says his political consultant David Keene: "Legislative experience teaches you to be tactical and think on an ad hoc basis. He's got to reach inside himself and talk about what he believes and what he sees for the country." Characteristically, Dole's rejoinder is a quip: "Your vision might be 20/20 today, but a few months from now, you might find that you need contacts...
...time it took to type this out, mankind had its first radioactive mushroom cloud, and nothing would ever be the same. Project Director Oppenheimer realized this immediately, and his reach into Hindu scripture has become famous: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Even before the test blast, Danish Physicist Niels Bohr foresaw a fundamental change in the relationships among nation-states. Both Hitler and Churchill, on the other hand, failed to grasp the political consequences of the new energy. "After all," said the Prime Minister, "this new bomb is just going to be bigger than our present...
...resulting shock waves spread outward through the core, enter the star's still unsuspecting outer layers, and hours later reach the surface, spewing the star's laboriously made elements into space in a mammoth explosion. All that is left behind is the neutron core, the strange entity that astronomers call a neutron star...
...writer (Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K), sides with the serious Crusoeites. In this terse sequel, he imagines an Englishwoman, Susan Barton, marooned on the same island with the lonely men. For almost three decades, according to the original version, the Yorkshireman lived womanless, out of reach of the English language. In Coetzee's tale, the estrous Susan is in search of an abducted daughter. En route, she becomes the mistress of a ship's captain. Mutineers seize command and set her adrift in a small boat. It grinds ashore on the celebrated island, and within hours...