Word: chokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration defended American presence in the gulf as vital to the nation's security. "Were a hostile power ever to dominate this strategic region and its resources," Reagan said at the memorial service at Mayport Naval Station, "it would become a choke point for freedom -- that of our allies and our own." Weinberger stressed that if the U.S. backed down, the Soviets would move in. "We simply cannot allow the Kremlin to have its will over this region," he said last week. "We will not be intimidated. We will not be driven from the gulf." Indeed, Moscow pre-empted...
...pictures share similarities besides their North African setting: agreeably low-keyed playing by their stars, a plot that involves them dangerously in local politics, and about the same quota of gags. There is one important difference: Ishtar cost roughly 40 times as much as Road to Morocco. Laughter can choke on such wretched excess...
...Governor Thomas Kean signed a law requiring the separation from other trash of reusable material so it can be recycled. The new law could reduce by 25% the 10 million tons of refuse dumped annually in the state's landfills. "Without further action," said Kean, "New Jersey could actually choke on its own garbage." Unless other governments take similar innovative steps, the country can expect more big stinks like the voyage of the Mobro...
...risk to his family's health. Pollution is so bad in Mexico City (pop. 18 million) that birds regularly drop dead from the soot-filled sky. Last year the city endured several thermal inversions in which dense, low-lying clouds of smog literally forced residents of the capital to choke on the waste produced by the city's 3 million cars and 100,000 factories. Warns Economist Rogelio Ramirez de la O: "If there is a thermal inversion in which a whole lot of people die, the government will be blamed and there could be a violent response...
...enough, the real goal behind the Administration's new initiative. The basic aim of the package is to strengthen America's bargaining hand with foreign competitors without giving Congress the opportunity to make use of such blunt instruments as sizable tariffs and other devices that would provoke retaliation and choke off trade wholesale...