Word: reasonlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he does not see how this could be worse. "Maybe I'm wrong," he says. "Maybe it will be a lot worse than I think." Friends say that Kennedy is fatalistic about his life and about the special danger that he faces in running for President. For that reason, his family and closest friends refused their counsel when he asked for advice about getting into the race. To an outsider, one of them would admit only, "It's really scary." Says Kennedy: "I know how they feel. That's why it's a very personal decision...
...reason for such fatalism is that American assassins have generally not been political foes whose acts might be anticipated but psychotics or social misfits who kill for bizarre and unpredictable reasons. Says Robert Delaney, a professor at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., and an expert on terrorists: "The most frustrating thing is that you are dealing with a randomness. There is no knowing when, how or if." Or why or who. Researchers say that assassins in U.S. history have typically been short, white, unmarried men with mental disturbances dating from their childhood. True, but both attempts on Ford...
...proposals would have given the U.S. the right, denied in the SALT II draft, to deploy ICBMS as large as the U.S.S.R.'s huge SS-18. The Kremlin would have balked at such a treaty revision, and that made Baker's measure a killer amendment. For this reason, the committee rejected it, but only...
...reason is that the annual growth of demand for electricity has fallen to around 3%, from the steady 7% through the 1950s and '60s. Meanwhile, the time required to bring a reactor ''on line'' has stretched out to a dozen years after the start of construction. Reasons for the delays: public opposition, cumbersome regulatory and licensing procedures, and the fact that reactor designs have not been standardized; each plant is custom-built, and the NRC demands many design changes while it is being erected...
...emaciated people in the final stages of malnutrition." Danforth added that the plight of refugees at the Thai-Cambodian border "defies the imagination. What struck me was to spend hour after hour and see only starving children: babies so wrinkled they looked like wizened old men. There is no reason on earth why this dreadful situation must continue...