Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This outpouring of American pride--pride in our technological superiority (Rah Patriot Missile), in our brilliant military (Rah 100-hour war), in our humanity (Rah No Civilian Targets), in our racial equity (Rah Colin Powell, Rah Blacks and whites in the trenches), in our democratic ideals (Rah Restoring the Elected and Legitimate Government of the Freedom-Loving People of Kuwait)--has been a successful diversion of our attention from pressing economic issues...
...major responsibility for the deaths. Arriving at the scene with reinforcements, after receiving at least two telephone warnings that his men were shooting at drug agents, he continued the attack. Although the report charged that Moran, his four top assistants and 14 soldiers had violated both military and civilian regulations and should be investigated by the defense ministry, it stopped short of accusing the army of drug trafficking...
...civilian life, a person's preference is his own business as long as he or she does not force his or her ideas on others. Military life is a completely different form of living where the individual must do as he is told and must subordinate his feelings for the good of the service...
...benefits of a military career which stresses leadership, integrity, trust, loyalty and responsibility cannot be found in most civilian organizations. I strongly feel that the opportunity for a military career should not be denied to Harvard students and that the ROTC program should be encouraged. Conrad H. Carlson '38 Commander, U.S. Navy (Retired...
...other major city in the war would suffer as many civilian deaths as Leningrad. Not Dresden, which was virtually flattened by bombers and where 30,000 died in one night of air raids. Not even Hiroshima, where about 100,000 were killed by a single bomb. In Leningrad the official Soviet death toll for the two-winter-long siege was 632,253, mostly of starvation. Other sources put the figure at more than 1 million...