Word: silos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rationale -- similar to that of Stealth -- was to penetrate Soviet antiballistic-missile defenses, which were themselves considered destabilizing because they threatened the American ability to retaliate effectively. But the Soviets responded with huge ten-headed SS-18 missiles that can destroy the U.S. land-based deterrence. These so-called silo busters offer a frightening incentive for a first-strike attack that, says defense analyst Sidney Graybeal, "makes them extremely destabilizing...
DISASTER AT SILO 7 (ABC, Nov. 27, 9 p.m. EST). A mishap at a U.S missile base threatens the Texas countryside with nuclear nightmare; Michael O'Keefe and Dennis Weaver race to save...
...stopping at this amusement center where a farmer took an old wheat silo, lined it with padding, and put a DC-4 engine at the bottom. We'll put on parachute gear and just float around for a while," Constan says...
...like Reagan, to whom he bears some unexpected resemblances, he is a master at wrapping a deeply felt conviction inside a one-liner. And he is bad at firing anyone. His receptiveness to anybody who will join him can be ludicrous, as when he took a wrestler named "Silo Sam," who claims to be seven-foot-seven, along on several stops the day after he met him, accepting Silo's public endorsement at a Teamsters' meeting, along with Billy Carter's, as a sign of his support from "ordinary people...
...without being considered ignorant except by the ignorant: "We makin' what ain't nobody buyin'." More than most politicians, he has a sense of the absurd in a campaign, and cannot resist making jokes as well as history (as he proved during his surreal day with Silo Sam). Though he has resolved not to criticize other Democrats, an occasional mocking touch comes through. At last year's Congressional Black Caucus, the master of ceremonies did an elaborate dance to slip a little platform in front of the microphone each time Governor Dukakis came up to it to answer a question...