Word: slayings
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...mother just as she was about to give birth to Huitzilopochtli. Instead, Huitzilopochtli sprang from the womb fully grown and armed, decapitated his matricidal sister and chased off his brothers. Some anthropologists read the myth as a cosmic drama in which Huitzilopochtli represents the sun, who must each day slay his sister (the moon) and disperse his brothers (the stars) in order to sustain his mother (the earth...
...order-to-delivery time for Pratt & Whitney's F-100 aircraft engine, for example, has lengthened from 19 to 38 months in the past two years. Experts warn that the industry does not have the capacity to build arms at the pace that Reagan wants. General Alton D. Slay, head of the Air Force Systems Command, told Congress in December that "even if we go all out for mobilization of our resources," the U.S. "would not begin to see significantly larger numbers of planes flying for at least three years...
...been drifting away in recent years. At moments the film evokes the kind of shuddery terrors that the classic animated fairy tales did. Like Galen, the Disney people seem to have a magic amulet that is full of promise. It will be interesting to see if, finally, they can slay the monster of indifference that has been laying waste their once secure hillside...
...past decade or so, the trustbusters seem to have run out of clearly evil dragons to slay. The fact that bigness is not necessarily bad also seems to be sinking in. Indeed, bigness can boost U.S. competitiveness abroad. Richard McLaren, chief of the Justice Department's antitrust division in the early Nixon years, is widely regarded as the last antitrust boss to do anything truly innovative; under Jimmy Carter, no new major antitrust cases were filed...
...back to California. Quite clearly, he was honestly surprised by the welcome he had received in the city that, in effect, he had campaigned against, decrying the nation's capital as the symbol of the Big Government dragon that he was so determined to slay. But when the President-elect flew in last week, Washington warmed to him as though he were a native son, mainly because he came not as a conquering hero but as a man with natural poise and an instinct for the gracious touch that seemed to dazzle almost everyone he met. The fact that...