Word: shatter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps most ominous, the administration is seriously considering "solving" the waste problem by using waste plutonium from the civilian reactor program to make nuclear weapons. This measure would shatter once and for all the convenient fiction of an "Atoma for Peace" program completely distinct from its more sinister cousin, the military...
Inflation and changing life-styles have combined to shatter the jukebox market. The price of a typical machine has risen from under $1,900 five years ago to nearly $3,000. Yet operators are afraid to raise the normal 25? price per play for fear of driving away business. Result: fewer jukeboxes are being installed...
Watching Horowitz unsuccessfully trying to shatter glass with a high note recorded on Memorex tape is a little like watching Houdini expose a séance. Commercials are viewed as a kind of ghost hunting; the greater fun is for viewers to see how they are being fooled, to see the bamboozler bamboozled. Most of the products Horowitz tests pass with high marks-he estimates 75%-but the blood sport is watching the advertisers turn into bozos when Horowitz can't wipe the scrawl off the Sherwin-Williams paint job, when three dozen eggs (out of 14 dozen...
...more its citizens seem to enjoy la dolce vita. As distress from terrorism or corruption grows, ordinary Italians are withdrawing into individualismo, which means ignoring the social structures and doing one's own thing, and familismo, or pulling back into family togetherness. Such universal disengagement does not shatter the nation. Instead, it keeps Italy functioning remarkably well. Explains Author Italo Calvino: "Italians know that they can count only on their own individual strength, that it is useless to expect anything from an authority whose institutions do not function...
Though he fears that anything might shatter Poland's fragile state, severing him permanently from his family and homeland, he wishes to vacation in Poland again soon. But one friend warned, between beers and commercials. "If you go back, [the government] will scoop...