Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pentagon and the State Department, they still remember a White House meeting of the National Drug Policy Board at which Education Secretary William Bennett growled, "Let's send the helicopters into Bolivia again to destroy the drug sources...
...well as political leverage can be used in the cause of preservation. Governments should force local lending institutions to review the environmental consequences of proposed loans. No bank, for example, should be allowed to lend a company money to set up a cattle ranch if the operation would destroy too large a section of an endangered forest...
...earth will probably last another 4 billion to 5 billion years. By that time, scientists predict, the sun will have burned up so much of its own hydrogen fuel that it will expand and incinerate the surrounding planets, including the earth. A nuclear cataclysm, on the other hand, could destroy the earth tomorrow. Somewhere within those extremes lies the life expectancy of this wondrous, swirling globe. How long it endures and the quality of life it can support do not depend alone on the immutable laws of physics. For man has reached a point in his evolution where...
...seeking gumshoe. "I wanted to make an odyssey," Potter says, "in which a man in extreme pain and anguish tries to assemble the bits of his life. That's the way you have to deal with physical pain, you know. You have to stand outside it and say, 'O.K., destroy me if you must, but I'm going somewhere else.' Those acute, extreme forms of illness almost force you to divide yourself between the suffering animal and the human being who has to moderate the suffering with intelligence and stoicism. And, if not kill it off, at least control...
...carry as many as eight nuclear warheads. The rationale -- similar to that of Stealth -- was to penetrate Soviet antiballistic-missile defenses, which were themselves considered destabilizing because they threatened the American ability to retaliate effectively. But the Soviets responded with huge ten-headed SS-18 missiles that can destroy the U.S. land-based deterrence. These so-called silo busters offer a frightening incentive for a first-strike attack that, says defense analyst Sidney Graybeal, "makes them extremely destabilizing...