Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Possibly even more embarrassing to the Navy was a videotape record of one of the Tailhook workshops that took place two hours earlier that same day, in which senior Navy brass -- including Chief of Naval Operations Frank Kelso and former Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III -- sat by as Navy officers jeered the idea of women in combat. "By not taking a stand at this moment, these gentlemen created an atmosphere conducive to what happened afterward," said a Navy officer who witnessed the incident...
...want to retain the top brass while all the real jobs are already gone?" Geer added. The city council supports the move out of political cowardliness, Geer said...
There is a momentary twinge of regret in Howie's young heart. He realizes that he has messed up his job. But then he looks down on the thousands of colorful balloons and the shiny brass instruments of the band. He sees the happy, smiling faces of Our Next President and Our Next First Lady and the Democrats below. Howie President suddenly feels a surge of happiness...
...myth; in fact, much of what we know of classical Greek thought was preserved by Arab scholars, without whose efforts we would know little or nothing of Aristotle. In science, Europe until the 14th century was illiterate compared with the Arab world, and a group of exquisitely made brass instruments in this show reminds one that the universal astrolabe was invented in al-Andalus around...
...Pentagon brass is now vocally hell-bent for reform. "Perhaps we can't change your attitude," Army Brigadier General Thomas Jones told TIME, "but we can darn well change your conduct." Perhaps not fast enough. The dominant attitude among naval aviators seems to be that it is not possible to be both an officer and a gentleman. "Subjecting these guys to classes in sexual harassment is like telling them not to smoke or drink," explains Charles Moskos, a military sociologist at Northwestern University. "You can't oversocialize them because that might even drive out the best pilots." Some Pentagon officials...