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398 · ONANTiad Continued

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LOVE CANAL
an area near Buffalo, N.Y., famous for its high amount of toxic waste and the effects it had on the residents there

EPA
Environmental Protection Agency

Berlin, NH
a town in New Hampshire very close to the Canadian border

Rumford, ME
Rumford is in Maine, less than 50 miles due east of Berlin, N.H.

MONTPELIER
the capital of Vermont

Lancaster NH
a city about twenty miles west of Berlin, N.H.

INFARCTION
heart attack

ANEURISM
a misspelling of "aneurysm," it's a bursting of a weak blood vessel, if in the brain, usually causing a stroke

SALEM MA
a city 15 miles up the coast from Boston

FROM SYRACUSE TO TICONDEROGA, NY
This line would go right through Park in New York.

FROM TICODEROGA, NY TO SALEM, MA
The lower corner of Vermont lies below this line.

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claque
a group of sycophants

hale
healthy

Kevlar
a synthetic substance used in, among other things, bulletproof vests

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aspersion
a disparaging remark

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Bôf
defined by the Cambridge Online French-English dictionary as an interjection "expressing a lack of interest or enthusiasm"

maroon
i.e., a moron

benighted
overtaken by darkness

cojones
Spanish for "testicles"

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Redemisement
probably a neologism in French, redémisement, with démisement meaning something along the lines of "dislocation," so redémisement being a re-dislocation or a second dislocation, here of territory

scenario
"Scenarios" is the correct plural.

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Tyrolean Hat

Tyrolean hats
For an example, see right.

H.E.W.
Health, Education, and Welfare

rife
abounding

Eminent nondomain
"Eminent domain" is the right of the government to seize private property to serve a greater good. This would be the opposite.

bien sûr
French: of course

U.S.O.
United States Organizations, an organization dedicated to entertaining troops at war

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coup de grâce
French: death blow

recalcitrant
hard to deal with or manage

¿Qué?<.i>
Spanish: What?

Yukon
a territory of northwest Canada that borders Alaska's western border

Brinksmanship
According to the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, this is "the technique or practice of maneuvering a dangerous situation to the limits of tolerance or safety in order to secure the greatest advantage, esp. by creating diplomatic crises."

1/3-rpm
This is one-third of a revolution per minute. LPs go literally 100 times faster.

'Flight of the Bumblebee'
an interlude in The Tale of Tsar Saltan, an opera by Russian composer Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

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IMBROGLIO
a misunderstanding or disagreement between persons or nations

SIN CITY
Las Vegas

F.E.C.
Federal Elections Commission

S.A.C.
Strategic Air Command

BK
Burger King

catastatic
of or pertaining to the climax of a play, movie, etc

radon
a chemical element that contaminates homes in gaseous form

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Maddox OH
doesn't appear to be a real place

Hartford
the capital of Connecticut

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Elmer's
a brand of glue

Endnote 159

Durban
the second most populous city in S. Africa, on the country's southeast coast

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Clipperton même
French: Clipperton himself

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transverse aberration
this is the aberration of light across a field

Sunkist
a brand of fruit and fruit drinks

410 · Hal's History of Television Before Subsidized Time

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incipient
beginning to develop

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Szechuan
alternate spelling of Sichuan

Y.P.W.

Sherman statutes
a reference to the anti-trust act introduced by Sen. John Sherman of Ohio (1823-1900)

TCI
Tele-Communications, Inc. (now defunct)

Malone
John C. Malone (born 1941), now CEO of Liberty Media

TBS
Turner Broadcasting System, founded by Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born 1938)

CBC
Canadian Broadcasting Centre

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American Council of Disseminators of Cable
Look at the first letters of the capitalized words.

HDTV
High-Definition Television

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liposuction
a surgical procedure whereby fat is literally sucked out of the body

P.T.A.s
Parent-Teacher Associations

PACs
Political Action Committees

REM
Rapid Eye Movement

kabal
an alternate spelling of "cabal," meaning a small group of secret plotters

b&w
black and white

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Preparation H
a brand-name ointment for hemorrhoids

Überad
a super advertisement, using the German über ("super") as a prefix

MLB
Major League Baseball

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Ch. 11 protection
Chapter 11, a section of the bankruptcy code under which one could file for protection from creditors

Dow turned Grizzly
i.e., a bear (downward-moving) market environment began

'Happy Days'
a once-successful television series on ABC

penultimate
second-to-last

half-gainer
a type of dive

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ken
understanding

vox- and digitus-populi
Vox populi means "voice of the people" in Latin. Digitus populi would be "finger of the people."

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CPU
Central Processing Unit

tentacularly
as with tentacles

GTE
General Telephone and Electronics

Hobbesianly
in a way suggesting that people are very much in a state of nature, i.e., without rules or laws

!
Used in the 2 times the square root of area formula, the exclamation point denotes a factorial

mimetic
used here, meaning as close to reality as possible

equatorial
lying on the Equator

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mycological
regarding the study of mushrooms

ennui
boredom

Endnote 168

Wagnerian
in the style or manner of Richard Wagner, the German operatic composer