Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outyears' and that battles no longer have front lines but instead have FEBAs-for Forward Edge Battle Areas." Correspondent Johanna McGeary got both Republican and Democratic views of the issue in Congress. She concluded that one thing can be said for certain about America's new defense buildup: it will cause many a war on Capitol Hill. "The American public may say they want bigger and better guns and armies, but they have no idea as yet what the social and economic cost will be," observes McGeary. "There are crucial choices to be made, and they will...
...perhaps $100 billion eventually. But that multibillion-dollar controversy will be only the first in a long series of tormenting decisions that will involve nearly every aspect of the Administration's plan to commit a staggering $1.5 trillion over the next five years to the biggest peacetime military buildup in U.S. history. Additional arguments are in immediate prospect, or already in progress, about everything from the size of aircraft carriers to the size of pay raises for Army noncoms and Navy petty officers...
...mouths are do the Soviets get a message they understand and believe. Thus it is that Haig sees the imminent decisions and action on such issues as the B-1 bomber and the MX missile system as key statements of American foreign policy. After the decisions on military buildup have been firmly made, Haig believes, we may see a new willingness in both Washington and the Kremlin to talk about limiting nuclear weapons...
With the Reagan Administration about to launch the biggest peacetime defense buildup in U.S. history, the skilled labor shortage threatens to create crippling and inflationary production bottlenecks. Without experienced workers, there is no way to shape and mold the thousands of metal parts that go into fighter planes and new tanks, into cruise missiles and Trident submarines. Northrop Corp., which co-produces the F/A-18 Hornet fighter, is already short of such specialized tradespeople as jig-and-fixture experts and plaster patternmakers. Says Donald Smith, director of the University of Michigan's industrial development division: "A recovering economy...
This movie has two big things going for it-the dragon and the man who masterminds its slaying. The former, when he finally heaves into view, is one of the few feature creatures who actually live up to the descriptions offered by terrified witnesses during the buildup. He has scale as well as scales, snorts realistic fire and generally represents an artful blending of mechanical and special-effects work. He lurks in a grand, spooky lair...