Word: untold
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Menachem Begin asks [Jan. 4]: "Are we a vassal state; a banana republic; 14-year-old boys . . .?" The answer must be yes. Years ago the U.S. assumed its "special relationship" with Israel, and we have confirmed it with untold amounts of economic and military aid and political support. We have become hostage to Israel's unpredictable actions...
Japan's preparations for that attack are recorded in an exhaustive new history timed to coincide with the anniversary, At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor (McGraw-Hill; $22.95). Author Gordon W. Prange, who died in 1980, began interviewing many of the Japanese principals while serving as a historian on General Douglas Mac Arthur's staff in Tokyo after Japan's surrender. He learned of the daunting tactical problems that faced the planners: how to find precisely the right bombing altitude and bombs to pierce armor-plated decks, how to perfect both torpedoes...
...energetically perpetuated by parents in cautioning children. "Don't get your feet wet, you'll catch cold." Even though medical research has long since shown that neither antihistamines nor any other medication can change the course of a cold, Americans spend some $1 billion a year on untold thousands of over-the-counter cold products...
...proliferation of CAD/CAM technology, however, should not push untold numbers of workers into the street. CAD/CAM'S spread seems much more likely to spur demand for large new numbers of computer-savvy technicians. Says Seymour Melman, head of Columbia University's industrial engineering department: "We will need people who can understand the whole complex electronic and mechanical machinery of these new manufacturing cells, and who can intervene quickly to repair them." Otherwise, warns Melman, downtime from sophisticated electronics gear that suddenly goes on the blink-as it is wont to do-will paralyze factories. Indeed, the new technology...
...decades, the most widely used poison was a chemical known as Compound 1080. In 1972, however, the Environmental Protection Agency prohibited its use on the grounds that the chemical was not only decimating the coyote population but also destroying untold numbers of dogs, foxes, birds and other animals that happened to eat the tainted meat. Livestock herders, who expect that the Reagan Administration may be less concerned about those environmental considerations than its predecessors, are now asking the EPA to reverse the ban on Compound...