Word: shells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shell Oil Spokesperson: In this well-remunerated position, Bok would defend the company's investments in South Africa before the press. Keeping a straight face, he would have to insist that the firm does not make political statements--despite the obvious fact that the investment constitutes involvement in, and sanction of, institutionalized racism...
...artillery shell, the W-88 rides atop missiles that would be fired from submarines and the W-69 is the business end of missiles designed to be launched from bombers at ground targets. Despite the diversity of their delivery systems, these three weapons, which together make up about 10% of the total U.S. inventory of nuclear warheads, share a frightening characteristic: all are, or have been, subject to safety problems that some experts fear just might cause them to explode accidentally...
Almost certainly, an unintentional blast would detonate only the chemical explosives that, if fired deliberately, would compress the warhead's plutonium cores and touch off an unstoppable atomic chain reaction. Some experts see a slim chance of a nuclear explosion in the case of the W-79 artillery shell, but the far more likely result would be a chemical blast that could release deadly radioactive plutonium or uranium from the cores. The safety problems, disclosed last week by the Washington Post, were promptly confirmed in public congressional hearings. The difficulties seem sure to complicate immensely a review under...
...self-interest. In its pursuit, public coffers coughed forth trillions of dollars and military budgets were gorged like French geese. It is hard to remember that national security has not always been with us as a national preoccupation. But it hasn't. Of late, it has become a hollow shell of an idea. It may be time to retire the term gracefully from service...
...MUTANT NINJA TURTLES. In just six weeks, $100 million worth of movie- goers have seen this live-action version of the TV cartoon. Were any of them adults? If so, they have seen a dark, plodding melodrama only rarely leavened by wit or derring-do. Heroes on the half shell; hit film on the hard sell...