Word: attackable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then come the Navy's new SSN-21 attack submarine ($2.9 billion for just the first one ordered); the Army's proposed Forward Area Air Defense system, a complex of sensors, guns and missiles to provide air cover on the battlefront ($60 billion); and the bills for two more nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, approved by Congress last year ($20 billion with escort ships and airplanes). The Administration is also asking for upwards of $5 billion a year for the Strategic Defense Initiative...
...with a proposal to reduce visiting hours at the nation's monuments -- knowing full well that Congress would never allow it. The Navy's version was to propose delaying a 4.3% military pay raise and killing both a Trident nuclear missile-firing submarine and two Los Angeles-class attack submarines, all congressional favorites. Carlucci coldly ordered the Navy to drop that ploy and instead mothball 16 aging frigates. Secretary of the Navy James Webb resigned in protest...
...picket line to the boardroom, he has been involved in many of the major union fights of the past decade, including the successful battles of farmworkers against Campbell soup and flight attendants against American Airlines. While supporters describe his approach as a welcome addition to strike tactics, critics attack him as a glory hound who seduces local unions into pursuing his interests -- publicity and influence over the rank and file -- rather than theirs. Whatever the judgment, in an era of union retreat, Rogers provides a rallying point for labor...
City and school authorities reacted last week with stiff security measures: ID cards for students, metal detectors at building entrances and classrooms equipped with silent alarms. But controversy flared over one provision: students who attack teachers will be expelled. Although the schools' dropout rate is about 37%, state law guarantees even thugs an education until they...
Lambasting Washington, Wall Street and special-interest groups everywhere, Iacocca, 63, complains that too many Americans are unwilling to make the compromises necessary to attack such problems as federal deficits, trade imbalances, ineffective high schools and shoddy workmanship. Unlike many industrialists, he calls for a more activist Federal Government. "The next President must find a way to ease the polarization, because we don't seem much like a 'United' States anymore -- just a bunch of fifty states, each doing its own thing...