Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disclosure of IBM standards could free Europe's computer makers from a trap of their own creation. Firms such as France's Bull and West Germany's Siemens have fallen behind U.S. and Japanese rivals partly because they have insisted on separate standards that have isolated their systems. Now access to IBM specifications will enable European firms to end their insularity by designing machines that communicate with...
Schell acknowledges the continued primacy of deference in his non nuclear world: in fact, he applauds in part II what he successfully debunked in part I. He sets a trap for the conventional thinkers of the world, and then, eyes open walks right into it. Of course, the matter is not that simple. Schell's deference would be the result of the massing of defensive weaponry (supposedly ABMs or space weapons, he does not say). But such deference, by its very nature, is doomed to imperfection, and given present and near future technology, there is no politically or militarily credible...
...their lofty, bloody cradle of men ... murmuring like two watchful lions.") The thin air not only contains 30% less oxygen than at sea level but makes auto engines produce nearly twice as much carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon pollution. Then, when the city's befouled air rises, the mountains trap it in the virtually permanent smog that now blocks the snowy crests from sight. The 14 million new saplings that the city planted on many streets between 1976 and 1982 are already withering and turning yellow. Every once in a while an enterprising reporter tests the air by putting...
...couldn't stand her sociological clap-trap. If she wanted to do some good in the world she had plenty of opportunity. There was nothing to stop her taking up charities and causes; she could have had money for them, and she always had plenty of time. But she has to rob supermarkets and banks and sleep with people like that...
...foreign exchange reserves had fallen by $1.4 billion in seven months. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, then newly returned to office, responded by negotiating the largest loan in the history of the IMF, $5.8 billion. Critics in New Delhi immediately charged that she had plunged the country into a "debt trap." Yet last November, Mrs. Gandhi announced that her government would not need the last $1.1 billion installment of the loan. What had happened? Increased domestic oil production and remittances from Indians working abroad helped reduce the deficits. But India had also gone to the IMF early, at a time when...