Word: trained
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Stress the political benefits of SALT II. The treaty is another step on the road to cooperation with Moscow. Kissinger's original conception of detente held that limited cooperation would lead to cooperation instead of conflict in ever-growing amounts; in a sense, he expected that cooperation would train both sides in conflict resolution. Such training, provided by a successful SALT pact, could come in handy in future crises. Besides, accepting SALT II will help convince the Soviets that we are not backing Peking in its histrionics in Southeast Asia; this will reduce edginess in the Kremlin, and perhaps even...
Junior Larry Lawrence, "the L Train" from Macon, Georgia, and the Big Green's top scorer throughout the season, railroaded the Crimson, hitting eight of nine short jumpers and one foul shot for 17 points in the first half. He ended up with 25 points on the night...
...open man breaking for the hoop. Averaging 28.6 points a game, Larry Bird, 22, is the second leading college scorer and stands third in rebounds. What is more, he has led his hitherto obscure team through a schedule that reads like the mail drops on the midnight train to Yuma−Wichita State, Tulsa, West Texas State, New Mexico State−and arrived at the top of last week's Associated Press national rankings...
...embankment sees two bolts of lightning strike the tracks at the same time and thus concludes that they occurred simultaneously, one far to the east, the other an equal distance to the west. Just as the bolts hit, a second observer passes directly 'in front of him on a train moving at high speed from east to west...
Which of these views is wrong? Nei ther, said Einstein. Measurements of time depend on the choice of the reference frame ? in this case, the train or the point along the tracks...