Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan-Weinberger $259 agreement apparently preserves every procurement program, from the B-1B bomber to the MX missile. Indeed, since Reagan took office almost four years ago, not one weapons system requested by the Pentagon has been canceled...
Stockman wanted to get $8 billion out of defense outlays next year on top of the $34 billion from other agencies. Even so, Stockman's plan would permit the Pentagon to proceed with development of 48 more MX missiles, the B-l bomber and the President's Star Wars defense against a nuclear missile attack...
...dull striped shirt he wore and the sad lost look of him. Holyfield punched past the bell twice-incredible-to rumbling boos. "I was in the groove of punches," he said later. "I didn't hear the bell." Byarm's lip was frayed, but the Brown Bomber had signed to do six rounds and did the six, winning one of them, maybe two. "I'll be back in the gym Monday," he said...
...inch of territory has been lost to the Communists," he declares. Last week he presided over a White House ceremony celebrating the first anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Grenada. On a swing through California, he stood in front of a production model of the B-l bomber at the Rockwell International plant in Palmdale and reminded workers there that the last Administration had tried to kill the plane. Said Reagan: "Mondale has made a career out of weakening America's armed forces...
...Carter Administration had practiced "unilateral disarmament." Toward the end of his term Jimmy Carter set a policy of raising military expenditures faster than the rate of inflation, though earlier he had canceled the B-l bomber and backed off the neutron bomb...