Word: american
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While President Bush turned his attention to domestic consumption of drugs, lecturing American students by nationwide television to just say no, the emergency aid he sent to Colombia came under fire. General Miguel Gomez Padilla, chief of the National Police, said that the equipment from Washington was useless in the drug war, complaining that it was "more suited to conventional warfare than to antinarcotics and antiterrorism operations." Gomez later claimed that he had been misquoted and in fact appreciated the aid. Another growing concern for Colombia is the presence of U.S. military advisers, considered an international embarrassment and a potential...
...often Atlantic City looks like a sneering caricature of untrammeled capitalism. (This may explain why terrorists threatening to retaliate against the U.S. on the third anniversary of the American bombing of Libya were rumored to have chosen Atlantic City as their target.) Along the Boardwalk stands a rank of casinos nudged so close against the water that they seem to teeter at its edge, their windows shut to the ocean air, their backs turned to the city. Behind them cowers the neighborhood known as the Inlet, where boxy row houses devolve into strange confections of brick, plywood and cardboard...
...turning Atlantic City into an American monument to self-delusion, the casinos blame the town, the town blames the casinos, and everyone blames the state. All of them are right...
...meet such needs, United and other airlines have begun to consider in- house programs to train their own mechanics. American Airlines, the largest U.S. carrier, has already started such a school. American currently runs 30- sec. TV commercials that stress maintenance and extol the airline's mechanics as "uncompromising professionals dedicated to perfection, flight after flight after flight." Meanwhile, the stock of AMR, American's parent company, jumped 13% in a single day last month on rumors that the firm might become the target of a takeover bid. But like Delta, which put 14% of its stock into an employee...
...Cher made a concert tour comeback after eight years, where did she open? The answer every time: Atlantic City. So Painton set out to discover the lure. "The only thing I knew about Atlantic City was that Louis Malle had made a movie about it," she says. Painton, an American, grew up in Paris and attended French schools until college and, like the French director, found the famous U.S. resort something exotic. "I approached this American shrine -- and Atlantic City is one -- with the intense curiosity of a foreigner," she says...