Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Those tidbits help explain the Crimson's poor won-lost record. But neither the record nor the explanations do justice to the quality of play the icewomen often displayed...
...return to its normal position and myopia develops. Second, the eye is least able to reduce strain near the point where the optic nerve enters the eye--Greene draws an analogy with the rivet holes in airplane wings, the weakest point of an airplane's body. This factor may explain why myopia is concentrated about the optic nerve...
...biomechanical model shows that myopia is both acquired and inherited. Excessive stress may explain how it is acquired, while location of the oblique muscles explains how it may be inherited. If someone is born with their oblique muscles attached near the optic nerve, they are more prone to myopia than most individuals...
ARNOLD C. HARBERGER made a name for himself doing cost-benefit analyses of development projects in such far-flung places as Chile and Columbia, Uruguay and Bolivia, Panama and Mexico. He has written dozens of articles and a book, Project Evaluation, which explain how to calculate rationally the pluses and minuses of development projects...
These various considerations help explain why SALT plays so insignificant a role in Soviet strategic thinking. In the voluminous Soviet literature on modern warfare, SALT is hardly mentioned. The impression one gains from reading this material is that from the Soviet Union's vantage point, the purpose of arms limitation talks is not so much to reduce that particular aspect of U.S. power which it fears the most, namely advanced technology and the ability it gives us suddenly to neutralize the war machine which the Russians are building up so systemically and at such heavy cost. We ought to make...