Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...China? The simple answer is there is no simple answer, just ambiguous facts. Like dual-use exports for civilian or military purpose, China's behavior can be benign or malign, better or not good enough. There's plenty to worry about if you're worried about China...
...controversy does open to fresh scrutiny a very difficult issue: To what extent do all U.S. sales of dual-use technology (items for legitimate civilian purposes that can also be turned to military use) help China modernize its military and improve its nuclear and missile arsenal? The question is hardly new, and scientists have been arguing back and forth for years whether China should be allowed to buy a whole array of items, from supercomputers and centrifuges to clean rooms and ground-positioning systems. "They don't just want our hardware," says Henry Sokolski, a former Bush proliferation specialist. "They...
...sale of sexually explicit magazines on military bases. "The decision shows that the Court continues to give great deference to what the military calls its need to maintain good order and discipline," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "The military works under a different set of rules from civilian society, and for the most part the Court still respects that." And putting saltpeter in troopers' food is probably unconstitutional...
Richardson was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, earlier this year...
...matrimony for the past 163 years. "Any cadet who is married prior to graduation," the academy's handbook says, "shall be separated from the military academy." But before the separation process was over--Army paperwork isn't the world's swiftest--the couple had their marriage annulled by a civilian court...