Word: triad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Witnesses described the Chinese crime incursion as the work of ancient Triads (the name stems from their triangular symbol). Police Chief Jon Elder of Monterey Park, a Los Angeles suburb, testified that his city had had eight shootings in just the past few months among Asian gangs seeking "power and supremacy" in the town, which has a population that is 35% Asian. He described one victim of a ritual Triad punishment as having been slashed 200 times with a saber, deliberately left maimed but alive. A commission investigator claimed that a prosperous businessman in Manhattan's Chinatown, Edward...
...aircraft, surface ships, submarines, and most of all, rockets." We are told that SALT I and II tended to codify the trends in each side's weapon inventory--for the Soviets' development of heavy, land-based, multiple warhead intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs): for the U.S., reliance on a strategic "triad" of ICBMs, submarine-launched missiles, and intercontinental bombers. Talbott acknowledges the relative danger involved in the Soviet choice of arsenal, which is easily targetable and therefore might predispose them toward a policy of "launch first, ask questions later." And we are told that SALT II left the Soviets with...
...string of Khashoggi investments in Salt Lake City. The state's conservative political and social environment appeals to the Khashoggi family, which during the past decade has pumped $77 million into an array of Salt Lake City development projects, including a $600 million downtown office complex called Triad Center...
...banal Paris street, the Rue Bourbon-le-Chateau. Yet the scene is far from ordinary. The orthogonals and links between objects give it a tense, mathematical substructure with all manner of arcane rhymes: the triad, for instance, of the red ball on the ground, the globe over the door and the pompon on the boy's cap. The cast of characters is mixed. The man in white might be a baker, or perhaps Christ carrying the lignum crucis; the two boys are Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the twins from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass...
...assume that any trend will keep on advancing until it triumphs all along the line. A trend postulates a countertrend, a force to be overcome, and if that latter has any raison d'etre to begin with, it will eventually reassert itself, and turn things around. The Hegelian triad of thesis-antithesis-synthesis has much to recommend it as a scheme of change...