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...question of the forces, again, without sort of going into yea or nay on particular systems, I would just try to add one point that hasn't been quite spelled out so far. This whole issue of limited nuclear options, limited nuclear war, I feel is much less motivated by political considerations or doctrinal considerations. In this particular case I'm a believer that it's technology-push that's at the forefront...It's not a matter of the technical community sort of sitting on their hands, you know. They've been pushing forward and developing new systems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deterrence, the 'Freeze,' the Future | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

...Dowling plan still faces several sticky problems that may stand in the way of implementation. Foremost among these roadblocks may be student apathy. The constitution needs 3200 "yea" votes--a majority of the College--for ratification. Given that only 35 per cent of the undergraduate student body bothered to vote in the April referendum, getting a majority of the College to support the Dowling plan this fall could prove difficult. "People won't vote against the plan--they just won't vote at all," Nancy J. Northrop '81, a member of the Dowling committee, has said...

Author: By James A. Star, | Title: A Bureaucratic Facelift | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...there's 7-Up, and Cross Pens. Every time a CEO comes out on stage, he makes the same small joke. "I've got a little check here Jerry...for $2.6 million." They smile sweetly while Lewis grins maniacally, they dutifully promise to raise even more next year and yea unto the generations, and then they trot off stage while Ed McMahon, the world's only professional introducer, welcomes the next guest. All the approved minor vices are there--Anheuser-Busch, the roller skater rink operators with nubile figure skaters in tow), and even the president of Harley-Davidson, which...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Boston: 267-2200 | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...then former mayor, Charles Saunders, rounded out the ceremonies with this hope, addressed to those who would celebrate future anniversaries of this city. "May they be able to rieterate this sentiment which I am sure we fell today," Saunders said--"The line have fallen unto us in pleasant places; yea, we have a goodly heritage...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: More Talk, Less Fireworks in 1880 | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

...hour when ye shall see him face to face . . . For in that dread day you shall get the message. Without CB . . . it shall be, that's it, buddy boy. For not all the air conditioning in the world can make you anything but a stench in my nostrils, yea an abomination unto my schnozz. You with your disposable lighters, I'll dispose of you saith the Lord. I'll run you through the Handi-Slicer, then I'll stuff you down the Disposall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where Love and Lechery Overlap | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

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