Word: salvos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...testimony took no account at all of an opening flurry of five shots, which was followed, after 17 sec. of silence, by a second fusillade. Meanwhile, photographs showed "positively, unerringly and incontrovertibly" that there was no movement whatsoever in or around the van during the opening five-shot salvo. In short, the memo concluded, De Guzman's account, which was corroborated by 13 other soldiers under oath, was "nothing but a tall tale, a fabrication from beginning...
...kind of Oliver Twist-flavored Hollywood punk, Piper (George Olden) does not like the Bleeding purportedly Catholic orphanage run by the sadistic Sister Serena (Ann De Salvo). Twentieth-century America being the breadbasket of the world and all, Piper has enough food--so much so that he uses the mashed potatoes as an ashtray-but lacks the respect accorded even laboratory test animals...
...more interested in laying the issues out so we have a real debate instead of this sort of naval barrage where one side fires a salvo and the other answers." Silvers added...
Ronald Reagan's 1985 budget took a thunderous shelling last week. Day after day, jittery Wall Street investors fired sell orders, hitting stock prices with their heaviest declines since 1982. Testifying in Washington, Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker fired the single most damaging salvo by warning that the deficits envisaged in the budget pose a "clear and present danger," threatening to keep Interest rates high and tip the economy into a new recession. Vote-conscious Congressmen attacked the budget from all angles. And throughout the barrage, Administration officials were hunkering down behind sandbags...
...decisive edge for the U.S., whatever the superficial appeal, could be dangerous. Deterrence of nuclear war is based on the concept of mutual assured destruction. As long as the U.S. and the Soviet Union each believes that the other would respond to a nuclear attack with a devastating nuclear salvo of its own, neither will risk a first strike. Deterrence requires nuclear stability, with both countries in a state of certain nervous vulnerability-sufficiently well-armed to retaliate if attacked but not strong enough to gamble by launching a first strike...