Word: destructiveness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apparent rupture in the strong rocket casing--whether at a seam or elsewhere--had the effect of pointing a torch at the side of Challenger's fuel tank. The theory is that the flame either burnt through the tank or a "destruct package," causing the explosion, or raised the tank pressure to intolerable limits with the same result...
Apparently, Lefter seems to feel that the dead spots in this picture can be spiced up by capturing a slew of seek-and-destruct scenes on film. Hence, we get to see Scwarzenegger murder an incredible amount of terrorists. And destroy quite a few large buildings. There is a lot of violence in Commando. Most of the violence is of the cartoon variety. However, in cartoons, the Road Runner doesn't scream or bleed as Commando blows off his head with a M-60 machine...
...Black living standards almost matching the rise of U.S. investments, a history of increasing violence and instability. Ironically, divestment by Harvard and others, and disinvestment by U.S. corporations may be the only move which could prompt real reform and stop the South African government from allowing itself to self-destruct in a blaze of bloody revolution...
...Reagan's philosophical objective of reducing the role of the Federal Government in American life. In part, the howl probably has been delayed rather than suppressed. Democrats, cowed by Reagan's 49-state electoral sweep, are lying low, many in the hope that Reagan's budget will self-destruct in a quarrel over military spending. Their strategy for the moment is to let Dole and his Republican Senate colleagues take the lead in trying to negotiate a compromise with the White House that would then have to be further compromised to get past the Democratic House...
...focusing on the remnants of supernovae, they are coming closer to determining the--types of stars that explode, how they self-destruct, and the importance of their remnants...