Word: roote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...root of Brown's thinking is his overall philosophy of defense. Says he: "To focus on the question of whether the U.S. might end up militarily No. 2 is to focus on the wrong question. The question should be: What are U.S. military needs? If the U.S. can meet its military needs, it is not in an inferior position. Then the outcome [of competition with the Soviet Union] will be determined not by that balance, but by all the other things?political will, social cohesion, economic capability, technology, agriculture...
Like any red, white and blue interplanetary alien, Brinkley opts for what is right. The book recounts his exploits as he searches for the root of the conspiracy. Is it the Mafia, the Russians, or the Texas oil millionaire? Could it be--gasp...
Humanitarianism can take root in the flintiest soil. Even killing ground. While the national debate about the death penalty goes on, the Texas Senate last week passed a bill to make the method of execution in Texas "injection of a substance in a quantity to cause death." Electric chairs now wait for the some 58 inmates on Texas' death row, and Representative Ben Grant, who sponsored the original assembly bill, explains: "We've gone from stoning to the cross to the guillotine and now we need a more modern method. The current ritual of burning a person...
Many other countries are far worse off than Italy and Britain. The root cause of their problem: soaring oil bills caused by OPEC's quintupled prices. While a small handful of OPEC countries have been amassing a $150 billion balance of payments surplus, the non-oil producing less developed countries, or LDCs, have plunged into debt by almost the same amount-$142 billion-to pay for petroleum. In only three more years, that debt load is expected to rise to a staggering $241 billion...
before deciding my lengthy battle with athlete's foot and root rot left my sole too scarred for a frisky chase through the thorny maze of iamb, anapest and trochee...