Word: civilianized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wednesday the President signed three Executive Orders that are designed to save more than $9 billion in four years. One will cut the 3.1 million civilian federal job force by 100,000, mostly through attrition, while another abolishes at least a third of the 700 advisory boards and commissions (example: the Board of Tea Experts). A third directs the Cabinet and federal agencies to reduce administrative costs...
With the CIA's help, Mobutu stepped into the power vacuum that followed the Belgian Congo's chaotic independence in 1960. Staging a bloodless coup, he took power, only to hand it back to a civilian President. The next year, ousted Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, who had turned increasingly to the Soviet Union for support, was assassinated in an operation that benefited both Mobutu and the CIA. "I received instructions to see that Lumumba was removed from the world," recalls Devlin. "I received poison toothpaste, among other devices, but never used them." Mobutu seized control for good in a second...
Even armies operating under conditions 7 and 8 may commit numerous rapes. Rapes increase geometrically if the soldiers feel that civilian women are implicated in the war against them. American soldiers in Viet Nam committed an unknowable number of rapes, including those attending the massacre at My Lai, in part when the units were incompetently or viciously led, but also in part because it was hard for the Americans to distinguish officially friendly Vietnamese civilians from the Viet Cong...
...biggest gain in 20 years. In spite of continuing layoffs at some of the country's largest employers, even the job market looks suddenly brighter. The months of what has ironically been termed "jobless prosperity" may be ending: unemployment in January fell to 7.1% of the civilian labor force, down from 7.3% the month before and the lowest figure in exactly a year...
...separation of male and female facilities throughout both the civilian and military worlds is widely practiced and widely accepted. Though it is difficult to say exactly why such separation is customary, a central reason is the element of sexual tension. That same element of exists between men if some are gay, especially if they are open about their orientation...