Word: shells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forced to take a stand, as with the outbreak of the Cold War in 1947, or the recent invasion of Afghanistan, the party falls apart. Too weak to survive on its own, the French Communist Party sacrifices political power for ideological security, and, once more, draws back into its shell...
...containing a nerve agent; last week the Pentagon announced that it will continue storing the weapons at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal near Denver despite protests from residents of the area who fear potentially lethal leaks. The Army has been seeking funds for a $170 million plant to manufacture artillery shells containing two chemicals that are harmless when separate but become hazardous when mixed in a shell or bomb after it is fired or released. This so-called binary method would make it safe to store the chemicals even near population centers. So far, the White House has vetoed the Army...
...wage and price guidelines, have repeatedly been half measures taken halfheartedly. Says Yale's William Nordhaus, a former member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers: "The Administration backed off from its anti-inflation policy all along the way. The policy has been a hollow shell...
...beginning about the band. They'd have said, 'Stop this, you can't even play a song.' I waited until we had an album before I told them. Now they're happy." "Yeah," adds Joey, with the half-speed weariness of a shell-shocked veteran of the star wars. "But now they say, 'Why aren't you as big as Kiss...
...should read it. Within the promise book is virtually every goal and at least the germ of almost every idea that the challengers are now so ardently proclaiming on the campaign trail. In hindsight's cruel light, we see that the promise book is a gaudy shell wrapped around a void. There is hardly a word about implementing these dreams. So it is in this campaign. The candidates describe how lovely life will be in their fairylands, but they rarely talk about how they are going to get there. That is because getting there is almost...