Word: yield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which Navy sources admit. Tridents carry the single most devastating element of the Triad. Stowed inside tubes that cut like shafts through the Jackson's four decks are 24 Trident I C-4 missiles, each carrying up to ten nuclear warheads, every one of them with a yield of 100 kilotons and capable of destroying a midsize Soviet city. With a range of more than 4,000 nautical miles, the missiles can deliver their deadly packages of firepower within 1,000 ft. of target center...
...shown the iron teeth rather than the broad smile. He told Pakistan's Zia ul-Haq that continued Pakistani assistance to guerrillas battling Soviet troops in Afghanistan would affect relations with the U.S.S.R. "in the most negative way." Said Zia: "Gorbachev was twisting my arm." Zia did not yield...
...side's geopolitical righteousness but to talk turkey in the sense Karpov meant. And if he is as effective in his one-on-one sessions with the American President in November as he was in his first prolonged encounter with the Western press last week, the summit may yet yield some promising results...
...inevitable arrest. Suddenly, two men pushed their way through the crowd and announced to two private security guards, "We've been asked to kill him." When the guards refused to let them inside the apartment, the two men first tried to break open the door; when it did not yield, they smashed a small window and climbed through. No one seemed to notice that the men were carrying something wrapped in newspaper...
Teeth provide important clues. Their alignment, the shapes of the roots, the patterns of wear and dental work are different in each individual. "It may be one tooth that puts the whole story together," says Snow, a forensic anthropologist from Norman, Okla. The rest of the skeleton can also yield information. Gunshot wounds, fractures and other major injuries often leave lifelong traces. So can diseases such as syphilis and tuberculosis and bone disorders like osteomyelitis, an infection from which Mengele is said to have suffered...