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...astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. But the warhead might also simply break the rock into pieces that would hit the earth anyway. A better plan, proposed by concerned scientists in the early 1980s, would be to use explosives to deflect an asteroid rather than destroy it. Properly positioned, a bomb could nudge a threatening object enough to make it miss the planet. The catch, says Harris, is that there would not be much time to react to an approaching celestial body. "With an asteroid like this one," he says, "you'd probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whew! That Was Close | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

LORENZO clearly wants to destroy Eastern Airlines. As Roy H. Anderson, General Chair of District 100 of the International Association of Machinists, said, "This is the first time in history that labor unions have gone on strike against the employer to save their own company...

Author: By Mitchell A. Orenstein, | Title: Would You Give This Man $29? | 4/19/1989 | See Source »

...does Lorenzo want to destroy Eastern, the seventh largest carrier in the United States, or at least reduce it to a shell of its current self? Lorenzo answered this question himself when he bought Eastern in 1986, "We're going to paint the tails of the airplanes and move them over to Continental...

Author: By Mitchell A. Orenstein, | Title: Would You Give This Man $29? | 4/19/1989 | See Source »

ABOUT half an hour into the noontime demonstration, Joseph Mlot-Mroz, carrying a sign saying "Fight and Destroy Jewish Zionist Conspiracy Today," rushed to the front of the University Hall rally and tried to address the audience...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: Promise of a Positive Left | 4/18/1989 | See Source »

...Jean's fiancee, the cook Christine (Martha Lane Moore). It is not clear who is seducing whom, but Julie and Jean soon overcome their inhibitions, and when Christine falls asleep, the two find an excuse to flee to the bedroom. Immediately after, they realize that the ensuing scandal could destroy them both, and in their argument over how to escape their predicament, each tries to drag the other through the slime of ultimate degradation...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Guns of August | 4/14/1989 | See Source »

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