Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Efforts to remedy these Western deficits have appeared indecisive: the on-again-off-again neutron bomb, the debate over the stationing of middle-range missiles in Western Europe. Some Washington officials accuse the Europeans of timidity, but Europeans are more inclined to see their caution as a prudent response to the changing balance of power. Says France's Aron: "When Jimmy Carter says the U.S. is the world's greatest military power, nobody believes him because it is not true." West Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has told aides, "If the Americans want to be convincing, they...
...Administration was also concerned over congressional resistance to a request by Saudi Arabia to purchase additional equipment for its 60 American-built F-15 fighter-bombers. With the new equipment, which includes extra fuel tanks, bomb racks and missiles, the planes would have both the range and ground-attack potential to pose a threat to Israel. For the moment, the Administration was keeping an open mind on the question, while noting that Saudi Arabia's security needs have increased with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...less than $500,000, received telephone calls or visits from Steven Miller, Chrysler's assistant treasurer, John McGillicuddy, chairman of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. and Treasury Secretary Miller. It quickly capitulated. Rockford's American National Bank and Trust, which was considered the hardest sell, received an anonymous bomb threat. It soon agreed...
This demographic time bomb is ticking away slowly inside the Soviet economy. Further industrialization is increasingly vital to Soviet economic progress; most factories, however, are in the western part of the country, while in largely undeveloped Central Asia overpopulation is accompanied by underemployment. So far, Soviet economic planners have not come up with a way of moving either the industrial base or the growing work force so as to bring them together...
...Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party, Graham Greene...