Word: destroyed
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...Middle East or outside of Europe." Nunn was referring to the official U.S. doctrine of having the resources to fight 1½ wars at the same time: a major confrontation with the Soviets in Europe, plus a regional skirmish. Said Nunn: "In the category of tank ammunition designed specifically to destroy other tanks, the Army has on hand about one-fourth of the requirement postulated by the Department of Defense for sustained combat in Europe." In addition, he said, the service is short almost 60,000 wheeled vehicles "required to move ammunition, fuel, wounded soldiers, food, weapons and to support just...
...name of that committee is a misnomer," said Bergenheim. "Actually it's a committee to destroy B.U.--they have no idea of saving it," he added...
Rise Gonna Rise describes the part that J.P. Stevens has played in the life of its workers through first hand accounts by the workers and through-documented evidence of corporate mismanagement and corruption. The personal narrative reveals the workers' wariness of unions which they believe would destroy the family like relationship they share with the corporation. Its shows as well the workers phenotypic deference fro a company that employed their forebearers and will continue to be the town's major source of employment in the future. The workers'; worker's words leave the reader with the impression that unionization...
...recent study by Harvard researchers on genetic growth patterns has revealed how carcinogens destroy cells inhabited by a virus. Mark S. Ptashne, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, explained the mechanism by which the phage lambda, a parasitical virus, grows relentlessly when exposed to cancer-causing agents and eventually destroys its host cell, Ptashne said yesterday...
WHILE ACADEMIC ECONOMICS roils in disagreement, Volcker has set the terms for a larger national debate from now till the 1980 elections. No one doubts that inflation is the American public's white whale, the unknown menace the government must first locate and then destroy. But experts and laymen alike disagree over where to begin looking. Liberal economists and their political bedfellows argue that narrow monetary policy can't solve domestic inflation when well over half that inflation traces its lineage to the tankered waters of the Persian Gulf. If OPEC intends further price hikes--as it apparently does--then...