Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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What a man among men! Sammie Hamilton observes, "Ed Watson were . . . as good a farmer as has ever cleared a piece of ground; he could make anything grow." Henry Thompson marvels at his skill on the waters: "One of the best boatmen on this coast." And lest anyone get the idea the man's skills were laboriously acquired, Thompson adds, "Mister E.J. Watson could hear a frog fart in a hurricane...
...household electronics, large items like autos -- could be sold at whatever the market would bear. This would absorb much of the $670 billion of savings "overhang" locked up in banks or stashed away at home because Soviet shoppers can find nothing worth buying. Sopping up that excess cash would make subsequent restructuring, from price reform to the convertibility of the ruble, less likely to produce hyperinflation...
Nuclear targeting is admittedly a complicated business. Planners must calculate the reliability and accuracy of the missiles and nuclear warheads, measure them against Soviet defenses and make a judgment on what it actually takes to deter the Kremlin from launching a first strike. Still, the notion of raining down nuclear weapons on the U.S.S.R. -- "convincing every last Soviet official that he's the target," as one Air Force official put it -- is sufficiently outrageous to spur experts to speak out. In the quarterly journal International Security, national security scholars Desmond Ball and Robert Toth call the current version of SIOP...
...submarines are needed to launch warheads at them. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney told Congress that he has undertaken a "new look" at the SIOP, but given his cautious record, critics doubt how far-reaching this look will be. Nitze, hardly an advocate of unilateral disarmament, says the U.S. could make do with 3,000 or so warheads, while former Defense Secretary Harold Brown insists that a stable deterrence is achievable under certain circumstances with no more than 1,000 warheads...
...most common targets of an alleged epidemic of police brutality are teenage males, whose very age and color make them suspect. "It's open season on youth as far as the police are concerned," says American Civil Liberties Union attorney Patricia Erickson. "When it comes to probable cause, youth, especially minority youth, are guilty until proven innocent." But critics say that even adult residents of gang-plagued neighborhoods occasionally have become victims of curbside justice dispensed in the name of fighting crime...