Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...critique offered a wide array of facts to support its conclusions. It contended, for example, that the Air Force is so short of spare parts that F-16 squadrons are assigned extra fighter-bombers (cost: $24 million each) solely for the purpose of cannibalizing their equipment. The Army's highly touted 101st Airborne Division, based in Fort Campbell, Ky., had an astonishing personnel turnover rate of 16.6% a month. Of the 190 F-14 fighters in the Navy's Atlantic Fleet equipped with the Phoenix air-to-air missile, 32 were recently either in maintenance or storage...
...crowd formed a similar array: there were families and high school students eager to get their first glimpse of an authentic Olympic event. "How many chances do you get to see Olympic soccer in New England?" asked Ralph Ticknor of Cambridge. On Wednesday he rooted for the team from Cameroon. "I'm impressed with their passing," he said...
...castle belongs to England's reigning Queen; the loyal subject pounding the pavement outside commands other realms. Sebastian Coe, 27, holds world marks for the mile and for the 800-and 1,500-meter runs, the most regal array of records in the history of middle-distance running. He is also struggling uphill after a bout with toxoplasmosis, an infection that he contracted last year. Coe's comeback after an enforced five-month layoff will not be fully tested until he steps onto the track at Los Angeles, where he will compete in both the 800 and 1,500 meters...
...acceptance speech to the Democratic Convention last week. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro (D-N.Y.) warned of "a Supreme Court that turns the clock back to the 19th century. "She was referring to an array of recent High Court decisions which have made in roads into the most basic personal freedoms protected by the Constitution Perhaps the most clear-cut example of this has been the court's assault on the so-called exclusionary rule...
There was good news for the Reagan Administration last week in military-dominated Guatemala, where U.S. influence is weak at best. Some 1.8 million voters braved four-hour polling lines, tropical rainstorms and a bewildering array of political choices to cast ballots in their country's most open and fraud-free elections in more than a decade. In the race for a new 88-seat Constituent Assembly, citizens gave a strong show of of support to moderate civilian political parties and issued a sharp rebuff to the 8 military and the landowning oligarchy that have ruled the country since...