Word: controller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...also became interested in the possibility of reducing earthquake damage by burying thermonuclear charges deep underground in seismologically active areas and detonating them to relieve the buildup of tension when strains in the earth's core approach the critical level. If this proves feasible, we could control at least the timing of earthquakes; people and property could be evacuated in orderly fashion. To preclude the escape of any radiation, the explosion would probably have to be two or more miles beneath the earth's surface...
None of these developments are a panacea for Africa. Lip service to reform notwithstanding, it remains unclear just how committed these well-entrenched regimes really are to giving up the total control they have enjoyed. The need for foreign aid and the fear of social unrest drove President Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's leader for 25 years, to embrace the idea of pluralism, but he has yet to schedule a promised popular referendum. In the case of Mobutu and Houphouet-Boigny, their utterances have contained a hint of "Apres moi, le deluge." These old-timers may be calculating that they...
Bourke said this policy does not provide enough control over the research process and does not require public disclosure. He said that setting up a committee with no direction leaves the process ineffective...
...Irish also must control the tempo of the game. Though Princeton was unsuccessful in its bid to play a slowdown game against the Crimson, it may be Notre Dame's best chance for victory...
...main thing for us is that we need to take the air out of the ball, slow things down and try to control the tempo of the game," Coach Kevin Corrigan said. "[Harvard has] got an awfully good team...