Word: sufference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other words if there is a serious crisis, both sides will seek to strike first in order to suffer comparatively less devastation. The New Yorker put it succintly: "The primary emergency plan-the one that seems more likely it be executed if the Pentagon was convinced that a Soviet nuclear strike was inevitable-involves a preemptive attack on military targets in the Soviet Union One of its principal aims would be to kil Soviet leaders ad thereby prevent their from launching their missiles...
...believe it. And in this context, Star war takes on critical importance. Because is the United States is ever forces preemptively to knock out the Russian nuclear force, even a half-way decen Star Wars system would go a long was towards cutting down the retaliatory damage we suffer...
...many veterans, however, acceptance has not been enough. About 5% of those who served in Viet Nam, according to the estimate, still suffer from post- traumatic-stress syndrome, a chronic form of what once was known as battle fatigue. The peculiarities of combat in Viet Nam made them especially vulnerable--never knowing who the enemy was, living in almost constant fear of attack in the bush...
...errant knights of old, wandering the ways of the world in search of adventure and glory." So says Morris Zapp, a cigar- chewing American professor whose extensive lecture itinerary has temporarily stranded him at a dreary medieval conference in Rummidge, a drab, provincial English university. Also on hand to suffer the droning speeches and inedible food is Persse McGarrigle, a young Irishman who is a virgin both in the traditional sense and vis-a-vis the brave new world of gypsy scholars. What dazzles McGarrigle most about the proceedings is Angelica, a beautiful and budding literary critic who befriends...
...decade or more behind the West in their use of computers, and that has retarded productivity increases. Moscow now seems to recognize that unless the Soviet Union produces a new generation of industrial engineers, workers and managers who are skilled and comfortable with computers, the country will suffer economically...