Word: split-second
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...John's Episcopal Church. He and the First Lady were to be escorted by motorcade to the Capitol Building by 10:30 a.m. by Senators Charles McC. Mathias and Wendell Ford, the chairman and a minority member respectively of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. The split-second Inaugural script, worked out in rehearsals staged with military personnel standing in for the Reagans, called for the swearing-in to begin just before noon. The oath of office was to be administered by Chief Justice Warren Burger before an invited assembly encompassing both houses of Congress, the rest...
...been arranged by the Kremlin in order to give the anti-cruise forces in Britain a boost. But in Paris, French President Francois Mitterrand expressed concern over the incident. Said he: "It is frightening that such things can go astray, because this sort of (nuclear) war is one of split-second reactions...
...blessed with hard-learned savvy. Wall Street smarts and plenty of gall. Says Joseph Flom, a top corporate lawyer who specializes in takeover cases: "You have to have nerve. You've got to be able to make tough calls on the spur of the moment with split-second timing. You've got to have the right stuff...
...started the nuclear arms race, and have led every step of the way. Every new weapons system has given the world less security and taken more control over our lives away from us. The fate of the Earth will be decided by split-second decisions by U.S and Soviet computers. Mutually Assured Destruction was achieved years ago. The push to go any further beyond that point indicates an unwillingness to understand the difference between bows and arrows and nuclear weapons. Such an unwillingness points to a profound indifference to life. In that indifference. I suggest that our President represents...
...mostly sensible use of its 74 cameras and state-of-the-art electronic whizbangery. Perhaps the best of its effusive yet informative pretaped features followed U.S. Luge Team Alternate Paul Dondaro down the vertiginous course as a tiny camera attached to his body showed how he steered by precise, split-second movements of his head and feet. The much ballyhooed computer graphics, however, added little to a viewer's understanding. At the opening ceremonies, for example, ABC hurtled graphics maps across the screen to pinpoint where lesser-known countries are situated, but the globes were so minute that...