Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stake are the nation's security and its traditional control of the seas, claim Navy officials, both civilian and uniformed. They have been leaking secret memos and giving background briefings warning that the huge Soviet naval buildup of recent years requires a matching growth in U.S. seapower. These tactics have enraged the Navy's adversaries, primarily civilian aides in the office of Secretary of Defense Harold Brown. Some of them now refer to the Navymen as "bastards" and describe them variously as "stupid," "narrow" and "anachronistic." This name calling has not deterred the Navy from sounding general quarters and manning...
...Navy's unconcealed rage against the Guidance and the proposed shipbuilding cutbacks has jolted the Administration. At background briefings all around the Pentagon Harold Brown's aides have been straining to explain their reasons for issuing the controversial document. While many of their arguments are practical and plausible, they prove one of the Navy's charges: strategy has become a product of budget requirements and not vice versa, as ideally and theoretically it should be. One of Brown's aides admits: "The Commander in Chief has decided that the defense budget is $126 billion and that the emphasis must...
...administration's softening of its earlier stand on nuclear energy is in its attitude towards the liquid metal fast-breeder reactor and the deadly plutonium it employs. The story of the watering down of the anti-breeder position is a many-faceted one involving Executive-Congressional power struggles, the background and geographical origins of individuals involved in the dispute, and questions of illusion versus reality in the creation of a national energy policy. In the end, though, political debate over the breeder--and more specifically the Clinch River, Tenn. breeder project--aptly symbolizes some of the vexing problems...
...background, white-gloved waiters are busily setting out plates of oysters on the half shell when the guest of honor, tiny Rene Levesque from Quebec, strides in searching for hands. Bleary Canadian reporters tumble in behind...
David G. Hughes '47, Mason Professor of Music, said last week his amendment allows a student "with exceptional background and ability to design for himself a program that in specific circumstances might be more appropriate than the Core...