Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Germany giving more restrained support-of the proposed multilateral force of 25 surface ships armed with Polaris missiles and manned by mixed crews from NATO nations. Where the French nuclear force currently swings a total punch of three megatons, the MLF would carry 200. Though the U.S. would retain ultimate control of the MLF's nuclear trigger, participating nations would have more pull on it than under the French scheme. The French last week reiterated one of their many objections to MLF: it would start the Germans toward being a nuclear power. But how in the long...
...their trees, shippers have begun to wrap them in a new plastic mesh that costs about 25? a tree but ensures arrival in good condition. At Montreal's MacDonald College, Dr. A.R.C. Jones is grafting European pines onto Canadian trees to produce a greener, fuller tree that will retain its needles longer...
...irrevocably lost. The question is: how much of skiing's popularity has been due to the sport itself and how much to the ancillary institutions that have grown up around it? And furthermore, now that some of these institutions are being threatened by mass participation, will the sport still retain its appeal...
Four of the eleven U.S. Government shipyards are on the list. McNamara's choices were based on a slide-rule cost-performance analysis that indicated that, "in summary, Philadelphia stands out as the single best shipyard to retain under all factors evaluated, while Portsmouth and New York [Brooklyn] rate lowest as the shipyards rating retention." Next to Philadelphia, the analysis showed that Boston ranked as "most desirable to retain because of its proximity to the North Atlantic sailing routes and to ships home-ported in the area; and because [its elimination] produces the smallest savings...
...more. He is old, almost 70, and his intemperate language now sounds more pathetic than frightening. It is sobering, however, to remember how often people have listened, how often this man has been anything but pathetic. Out of either fear or trust, ten administrations have felt obliged to retain...