Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote was clearly a repudiation of the Republican party, but it was not a mandate for progressive alternatives. For example, Massachusetts citizens, while creating one of the closest things to a one-party system in the country, indicated their conservatism by approving with a solid majority constitutional provisions for the death penalty...
...toss-up in Maine doesn't bode well to Democratic hopes of a big anti-Reagan turnaround in today's voting. It ominous indeed that a solid moderate like Mitchell with a popular record on arms control and the environment--not to mention a volunteer force of 3,000 strong--isn't pulling away from a staunch Reaganite like Emery, who hasn't even run a very effective campaign. Mitchell has an even shot at pulling it out, but Democratic effort to capitalize on the country's economic travail could very well fail to Maine, where many people seem still...
...nations on the grounds that it would alienate the rest of the Arab world. The logical starting point, therefore, is a U.S.-negotiated agreement to withdraw all foreign forces from Lebanon. Neither Syria nor Israel, however, wants to be the first to pull out, and Israel is asking for solid assurances that it will no longer have to worry about being attacked by P.L.O. guerrillas in southern Lebanon. Though Israel hopes to retain a military presence in a 30-mile-deep security zone in southern Lebanon, it might settle for an agreement under which the area would be patrolled...
Like Wilson, Klug began his scientific career in physics, which he still teaches undergraduates at Cambridge's Peter-house College. Indeed, his doctoral work at Cambridge involved the kind of problem that occupied Wilson: determining what happens to molten steel as it crystallizes into a solid. Klug soon turned his attention to biological systems, including the oxygen-carrying molecule hemoglobin, and the structure of viruses, those tiny, protein-cloaked bits of genetic material that invade cells. One of his major achievements: developing new techniques of electron microscopy that provide three-dimensional views of the world of biological molecules...
Enter ecology, inflation. Exit infinite space. In no time flat the American automobile industry is reduced to a tragicomic opera, with Lee Iacocca as chief of the sad clowns, and a cast of thousands unemployed. Art imitates death. The Solid Gold Cadillac disintegrates pathetically into My Mother the Car, then goes nuts entirely. In 1977 Hollywood produces The Car, a movie equally moronic and spellbinding, in which a driverless sedan plays mass murderer. No Freudians necessary. The only medium to keep the faith is television, always a cultural anachronism, with the cop shows half consumed with cars chasing cars. Even...