Word: vacuumized
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Many who criticize the system simply don't know the procedures, they say. In Keller's words, "Misinformation loves to fill a vacuum...
WALTER MONDALE would provide a salutary antidote to the ideology-in-a-vacuum which has characterized Reagan's foreign policy. No one need challenge this old Minnesotan's commitment to a sound defense, which would hardly be emasculated by the Defense Department cuts he proposes. Mondale wants only to scrap the weapons system-like the MN missile-which have no value either strategically or as bargaining chips in arms negotiations with the Soviets. More important, though, Mondale's vigorous scrutiny of the Pentagon budget would help bring an end to the insidious culture of procurement that has flourished under...
...consequence was that by the mid-1970s there was a vacuum that the Sicilian Mafia was all too eager to fill. As law-enforcement authorities have suspected-and Buscetta has now confirmed-Palermo has replaced Marseilles as the center of Europe's heroin business. Authorities estimate that some two tons of pure heroin (worth billions of dollars at street prices) are produced in Palermo each year from opium smuggled into Italy from the Golden Crescent of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Heroin can often be bought in New York City's Times Square 48 hours after it leaves Sicily...
Finding the wrecks is often only the start. Sophisticated recovery techniques are needed to get at the loot. Various blowers are sometimes used to dislodge sand. The airlift, a sort of giant vacuum cleaner attached to the search ship via a long plastic tube, removes layers of sediment while divers sift for treasure. Diving methods developed for undersea commercial uses, such as seabed mining and pipeline building, have made it possible to salvage deep-water wrecks. A notable example: H.M.S. Edinburgh, a British cruiser that sank after a Nazi attack in the Barents Sea north of Murmansk, U.S.S.R., during World...
...nonprint reporting was equally assertive. To slake its countrymen's curiosity about Los Angeles and life in the fast lane, British television showed naked ladies sitting in hot tubs sipping daiquiris, looked in on a cocaine-snorting party and reported on esoteric appliances like outdoor vacuum cleaners...