Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...computer that can save the world is in Lapland, stashed in a hidden, subterranean laboratory. Just so there should be no mistake, the thing bears this sign, discreet but emphatic: THE MOST COMPLEX COMPUTER IN THE WORLD. DO NOT TOUCH. The trouble is with those who are allowed to touch it, three slightly awry scientists and their collaborator, a splendidly long and sexy programmer, openhanded but calculating about distributing her favors. The world is coming to an end, and this quartet is the only hope. At least, that is what they...
...consequent leap in the consumer price index. A Senate staffer involved in energy policy claims that Ford is submitting "an unworkable program that can't be enacted." The Administration; he feels, is "out of touch with reality on the Hill...
Some Kremlin watchers are not so sure. British Sovietologist Leopold Labedz contends that any Brezhnev illness would be bound to touch off a power struggle in the Kremlin, if only because the Russians have never solved the problem of how to transfer authority in an orderly succession. According to this logic, competing factions in the Kremlin would try to exploit Brezhnev's physical weakness by pinning any recent policy failures on him as a pretext to seize power. Columbia University Political Scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski, as well as many Moscow-based diplomats, speculate that the party chief has already come...
...doesn't feel out of touch with things that are going on back home--something that Jim Sam sees as a problem for Indian students--because his father, a Paiute Indian and the executive director of the Nevada Indian Affairs Commission, keeps him well informed. "He's given me a million books to read," Morres says...
...inquiry into the assassination. But the implications of Cockburn and Langman's argument are clearly larger than they immediately let on--the DA would have already reopened the case if he didn't know something we don't. And if Sirhan didn't kill Kennedy, he was obviously in touch with other people who, working from some sort of prearranged plan...