Word: ah
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Oddly, Cheney also wants to phase out some of the battle equipment that the public has only begun to recognize. The M1A1 tank as well as the Bradley fighting vehicle, both hardy workhorses in the gulf, will no longer be produced. Assembly lines for the AH-64 Apache and AH-1S Cobra helicopters, so efficient in the fighting, will close; the Army wants a new heavy battle tank and a high-tech helicopter instead. The Navy will eliminate or scale back some weapons designed for battling the Soviets, including its Trident SLBM submarine program and its hunter-killer Seawolf submarine...
...ante on his own anarchic instincts. To call him a bear of a man is to give bears too much credit; they have not his strut, his growl, his formidable charisma. It is said that when French bears see a particularly imposing member of their species, they exclaim, "Ah, mon Dieu! Un Depardieu...
...Ah, but the '60s; now there was a decade to reckon with. It had personality and definition; it made an impact. It was the decade of the Beatles and the Kennedys, Vietnam and Kent State, the Generation Gap and the Credibility Gap. Negroes became blacks, and black became beautiful; the campuses exploded; draft cards went up in smoke; and sexual taboos disintegrated. When the '60s ended (sometime early in the '70s), the world -- and we -- had changed...
...Ah, but the fight is for jobs. This argument only lasted a day or two. The war buildup has been further devastating an already weak U.S. economy, plunging us into a recession...
...Ah, yes. The fight is about upholding international law. Iraq should not have invaded Kuwait. No question. But this rings a bit false coming from the country that just last year was condemned by the United Nations for another "flagrant violation of international law": the invasion of Panama. the number of civilian deaths resulting from the invasion of Panama were of the same order of magnitude as the number of civilian deaths caused by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait...