Word: space
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...planned service extension also mean the MBTA will be forced to look for more train storage space. And South Station, where all trains now use only tracks to reach the station's 11 platforms, will have to be renovated...
...carried out brutal reprisals against Yugoslav resistance fighters and deported Greek Jews to Nazi death camps. The book further asserts that Waldheim dropped all mention of his Balkans service from the 278-page English-language edition of his 1985 memoir, In the Eye of the Storm, only to meet space requirements...
...these distortions, however, ignore the most fundamental distinction of all: the eccentric is strange because he cares too little about society, the weirdo because he cares too much. The eccentric generally wants nothing more than his own attic-like space in which he can live by his own peculiar lights. The weirdo, however, resents his outcast status and constantly seeks to get back into society, or at least get back at it. His is the rage not of the bachelor but the divorce...
...details remained to be worked out before the weapon could be built. And as late as 1987, Lowell Wood, a manager of weapons development at Livermore and Teller's protege, told a House subcommittee how "X-ray lasers can be used to destroy any type of platforms in space, including defensive platforms, so the counterdefensive role is being explored extensively, and it is this role in which X-ray lasers might be expected to first come into play...
Detecting weapons in space -- or documenting their absence -- raises more verification obstacles. The U.S. has begun preparing a new generation of satellites whose sensors will be aimed not at the earth but at the vast expanse beyond its atmosphere. One of the first due off the drawing board is an experimental bird called Starscan, scheduled for launch in 1991. It will approach orbiting objects and test for the radiation given off by nuclear devices. But the new satellites will have a harder time establishing the presence of space-based lasers and particle-beam weapons like those proposed as part...