Word: remains
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...magazines. In average homes, he might see 7-ft. TV images as crisp as 35-mm slides and enticing new food products concocted in the lab. But if he could read the labels on those futuristic creations, he might also discover the outcome of America's struggle to remain the leading technological superpower. Sad to say, a majority of those products might well bear the words MADE IN JAPAN...
After warning that we should remain cautious while encouraging the Soviet Union on its path toward becoming a "less threatening" nation, Reagan failed to offer any further suggestions as to how to reduce tensions between the two superpowers. And, though he went on to mention the budget deficit as one of his regrets, he declined to speak further, saying, "I'm going to hold my tongue...
...time when we face new challenges and dilemmas that urgently need our attention. A farewell address represents a serious opportunity to define the problems and offer solutions. If Reagan realized that he had this opportunity, he gave the American people no sign when he asked them to remain unquestioningly proud of their country. And that's too bad because this lame-duck President won't get another chance...
Whatever the validity of this or that theory, the earth will not remain as it is now. From its beginnings as a chunk of molten rock and gas some 4.5 billion years ago, the planet has seen continents form, move together and drift apart like jigsaw-puzzle pieces. Successive ice ages have sent glaciers creeping down from the polar caps. Mountain ranges have jutted up from ocean beds, and landmasses have disappeared beneath the waves...
...next century, as some scientists have predicted? One option would be to construct levees and dikes. The Netherlands, after all, has flourished more than 12 ft. below sea level for hundreds of years. Its newest bulwark is a 5.6-mile dam made up of 131-ft. steel locks that remain open during normal conditions, to preserve the tidal flow that feeds the rich local sea life, but can be closed when rough weather threatens. Venice is beginning to put into place a 1.2-mile flexible seawall that would protect its treasured landmarks against Adriatic storms without doing ecological damage...