Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They will also want to talk to you about maintaining the level of American troops on West German soil, on better coordination of conventional weaponry as a deterrent, on the problems of declining defense budgets and increased Soviet military pressure, not only in Central Europe but in the far north and the Mediterranean as well. In sum, they will be looking for your reassurance that the U.S. is determined to maintain its status as the Western world's defender...
...three experiments have been extensively tested using terrestrial soil samples and, as a result, it is safe to say that it is extremely unlikely that a false positive result will be obtained...
...Harold Klein, biology team leader of the Viking mission, published about the time that the first U.S. lander went to work on the surface of Mars. Yet last November, after these same life-seeking experiments aboard both the Viking landers had shown apparently positive results in tests of Martian soil, Klein and other NASA scientists seemed unsure. In a Washington press conference summarizing the Viking findings, they announced that the results made it impossible to say that there was or was not life on Mars. That has remained NASA's official position. But unofficially, a handful of scientists support...
...steep mountain slope or the tongue of a glacier just another highway. Our America has been blessed by a myriad variety of landscapes. But whether we are on the mountaintop, in the desert, on shipboard, in our automobile or an airplane, we are protected from the climate, the soil, the sand, the snow, the water. Our roots, such as they are, grow in an antiseptic hydroponic solution. Instead of enjoying the weather given us "by Nature and by Nature's God" (in Jefferson's phrase), we worry about the humidifier and the air conditioner...
...ancestors knew--and Martin Luther King taught us--that the United States is a strange, hypocritical and schizophrenic nation. It will gladly and quickly spend billions of dollars and sacrifice thousands of lives to illegally enforce its doctrines on foreign soil--where it has no right or jurisdiction--while vigorously refusing to provide the privileges and immunities of freedom for millions of its own people right here at home...