Word: torpedoes
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Wilson's main opponents in the budget battle are legislators from his own party. Last week the assembly's 31 Republican members helped torpedo Wilson's compromise plan for raising the $2.3 billion still needed to balance the budget. The sticking point was a proposal to increase state income tax rates for those with incomes over $100,000 from 9.3% to 10%. As an enticement to tax-shy Republicans, Wilson had backed a probusiness reform that would make it harder for workers to qualify for stress-related workers' compensation. But after Democrats, under pressure from organized labor, rejected the linkage...
Last week the Bermuda Triangle lost an important bit of its mystery. A New York City-based salvage company searching for Spanish galleons off the Florida coast discovered the remains of five Navy torpedo bombers that took off from a base in Fort Lauderdale on Dec. 5, 1945, and were never seen again. The planes, looking not much worse for wear, turned up in 750 ft. of water about 10 miles off Fort Lauderdale...
...study of the nearby universe reveals giant clumps of galaxies surrounded by great voids. That may torpedo a leading idea of how the cosmos was formed...
Pearl Harbor ignited Bush emotionally, though not yet intellectually. He enlisted and went off to the Pacific as a torpedo-bomber pilot. "It was good vs. evil," he says. "The evil was epitomized by Adolf Hitler and Emperor Hirohito. There was never any second-guessing, never any rationalization about what we might have done differently." Bush was "quite aware" of the cold war. He talked about it with his father Prescott Bush, who was then a U.S. Senator from Connecticut. Bush met Dwight Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, the diplomat who riled the world by suggesting...
...room for maneuvering. Should he fail to display "the necessary firmness," warns the Soyuz group, it may call for his resignation when the fourth Congress of People's Deputies opens next week. But while adopting a harder line may endear Gorbachev to the right, it will just as likely torpedo his hopes of persuading a majority of the leaders of the country's 15 republics to sign a new union treaty without being coerced...