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While the ultimate terror would be a working bomb constructed by terrorists on their own, the much likelier catastrophe is a large purchase of plutonium by a country looking for a shortcut to a nuclear arsenal. "It's clear that the highest bidder is going to be a state," says Phebe Marr, an expert on Iraq at the National Defense University in Washington. A government with nuclear ambitions would want not just a single bomb but an arsenal or significant additions to an existing arsenal. One or two bombs could attract threats and retaliation from abroad. So an interested state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROLIFERATION: Formula for Terror | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

...students explained their shortcut-taking techniques in one of Trumbull Professors of American History Donald H. Fleming's classes...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: How Does Harvard Define Cheating? | 2/15/1994 | See Source »

...feature that shows some creativity of the software's developers is "Tip of the Day" in the Help section. Every time WFW is booted up, a new tip becomes active. Each tip gives a shortcut to using WFW and can be very helpful for those of us who absolutely loathe reading the huge set of manuals or searching through the on-line help...

Author: By Haibin Jiu, | Title: MS Word 6.0 | 12/14/1993 | See Source »

Microsoft has also added so-called shortcut menus, which are superficially similar to the balloon help in the Macintosh System...

Author: By Haibin Jiu, | Title: MS Word 6.0 | 12/14/1993 | See Source »

...whereas the latter provide explanations of objects on the screen, WFW shortcut menus, activated by clicking the right mouse button over a screen element (such as text or toolbar), allow you to access functions associated with that object without going to the main menu...

Author: By Haibin Jiu, | Title: MS Word 6.0 | 12/14/1993 | See Source »

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