Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guidance computer programs so complex that they can be written and tested only by other computer programs. A laser weapon that can release death rays in the nanoseconds before it is obliterated by its own power source, an atom bomb. A jet fighter that can understand the pilot's spoken commands...
...addition to Kim Dae Jung, the new party's backers include Kim Young Sam, 57, who spent the election campaign under house arrest, and Party President Lee Min Woo, 70, a stem-winding orator who used the rarely spoken words dokcheja (dictator) and kunsa dokje (military dictatorship) in campaign speeches. Most of the N.K.D.P.'s new strength at the polls was drawn not from the ruling party but from another opposition group, the Democratic Korea Party, which gained 81 seats in the 1981 elections but only 35 this time. N.K.D.P. support was particularly strong in Seoul (pop. 9 million...
McChristian's testimony was among the most dramatic of the trial. He not only attributed to Westmoreland the "political bombshell" phrase, which the commander testified he had never spoken, but also rejected Westmoreland's claim to have disputed the cable on substantive grounds. Said McChristian: "He had the right to question the intelligence, but this isn't what happened at that meeting...
...other KGB agents were often seen with "medical advisers" at the mission. Their jobs were to acquire as much information as possible about American medicine. Some were epidemiologists. The agent who was later expelled had spoken with relish about the possibility of demolishing New York's electric-power systems. Perhaps he was working out plans of an even more sinister nature with the poison and plague specialists...
...Atlanta, Brown made the department responsive for the first time to business and other community groups. He reorganized the demoralized top echelon of the department into an efficient management team, and has won over line officers by supporting their demand for overtime pay and other benefits. The soft-spoken chief is not shy about his accomplishments. "I'd give myself an A," he says. That seems about right. When Houston power brokers gathered for lunch a year ago and his name came up, everyone at the table gave him the same grade...