Word: vis
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...degree of ethical judgment and social organization that humanity has rarely shown any sign of possessing. Just as the computer itself derives, however, from the simple proposition that all mathematical logic can be reduced to various combinations of zero and one, these revolutionary upheavals in human society are clearly vis ible in the distance. Indeed, they can be seen already in the birdlike contraptions that poke their fiery beaks into the un finished steel frames at the Jefferson plant in East Detroit...
...could be quickly moved to Europe in case of war. Because of the lack of manpower, Meyer declared, the U.S. has a "hollow Army." In September, Air Force Chief of Staff Lew Allen Jr. told the Air Force Association that the U.S. has "serious deficiencies in its armed forces vis-àvis those of an increasingly powerful Soviet adversary...
...western rim of the Indian Ocean] may well be the focus of our major effort in the 1980s to enhance geopolitical stability," Brzezinski says. "Between 1945 and 1955, the major thrust was in Western Europe and the Far East. From 1955 on, it was in assuring overall strategic stability vis-à-vis the Soviet Union. It is very likely that in the 1980s we will be involved in an unprecedented effort to assure stability, and therefore exercise deterrence, in the Persian Gulf area...
...becomes apparent that the barometer for attitudinal change vis-a-vis women in Nicaragua is the effectiveness of propaganda. The Nicaraguan lesson is that perhaps the only way to overcome sexism is by intense political indoctrination and enforced peer pressure. Time will tell if Nicaragua will succeed in changing social attitudes and integrating women into all sectors of Nicaraguan society...
...Cora Swanson (Teresa Wright), her husband Theodore, known as Thor (Maurice Copeland), and the spinster sister, Aaronetta (Elizabeth Wilson), who has lived with them for 40 years. Cora feels she can no longer bear this cross. When it develops that Aaronetta was not an inviolate spinster, at least vis-a-vis Thor, summer lightning flashes through the houses...