Word: tunneling
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...example, cherished (almost autoerotically) the illusion that they were part of "the Revolution," a force of history that would overthrow the power structure in the U.S. And illusion was an indispensable instrument of the war effort: the "body count," for example, or the "light at the end of the tunnel," the longed-for illumination, never seen, that would indicate that victory and salvation were near. At the close of 1967, the official invocation of the light at the end of the tunnel was still ritual. The New York Times, influenced by Government briefings, reported in late December that "military indicators...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: TUNNEL OF LOVE (Columbia). Another great record by the Boss. Act indifferent at your peril...
...that technique divide complex problems into pieces, which are then handled by scores or even hundreds of processors working simultaneously. The Reagan Administration is reportedly planning to endorse and underwrite research in the field, since the technology is crucial not only for such applications as weather forecasting and wind-tunnel testing but also for the President's Strategic Defense Initiative...
...forward at 55 m.p.h. The trucks are shunted off to a side lane and traveling along, nose to tail, bumper to bumper, they look like . . . yes! . . . a train! Remember trains? Surely trains were more sensible than this, a 20th century folly, this stampede of steel roaring toward the Lincoln Tunnel...
...have already led to an exodus from Manhattan by the "back offices" of financial-service companies, as well as some corporation headquarters. So many companies have been lured across the Hudson to New Jersey that Koch, with characteristic moxie, posed for an ad showing him sealing off the Lincoln Tunnel. "The rats are leaving," he growled recently, unwittingly casting his city in the role of sinking ship...