Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such events shock us, they are also somehow expected, as if the world were at once in supreme command of itself and superstitious: "I knew that something like this would happen." Perhaps the fact that we are relatively new to the prospect of nuclear war gives us both solid and shaky ground. That fear of annihilation must seem preposterous to you, who either have neutralized it or live with weapons that make our missiles seem like Gatling guns, or both. Congratulations...
...more single-mindedly for a toy than do some 800 manufacturers and distributors for a share of that market. At Mattel, the second largest toy company, with sales of just over $l billion, guards patrol the R&D building in Hawthorne, Calif., as if it were a Strategic Air Command base. Understandably. A successful new product can mean buckets of the stuff that grown-ups' dreams are made of. Coleco came charging out of the Cabbage Patch with its pathetic but lovable doll, and currently ranks third, with annual sales of more than $500 million. Hasbro, the leader, with...
Mary Jo Bane, who left the Kennedy School to take the job of deputy commissioner of the New York state department of social services in 1984, received the tenure offer one year later. Her New York position put her second in command of a budget of $16 billion that covered the New York's welfare, medicare programs and more...
...arrival of one more refurbished B-52 bomber at Carswell Air Force Base near Fort Worth would hardly seem an event to create diplomatic turbulence. But when the aircraft linked up with the Strategic Air Command Seventh Bomb Wing last Friday, it became the 131st B-52 to be equipped with nuclear- tipped cruise missiles -- and that sent the U.S. right through the ceiling of the SALT II agreement. The unratified 1979 arms-control treaty allows the U.S. a total of 1,320 strategic nuclear delivery systems. If the number of bombers carrying cruises passes 130, the U.S. is obliged...
...knew precisely of the money transfer. Poindexter knew vaguely about the transactions, and McFarlane learned something about them while pursuing diplomatic contacts with Iran as a special presidential emissary after he had resigned from the NSC. But neither seems to have told anybody in the Administration's chain of command. Later in the week, Meese added that "one or more consultants" to the Government, whom he would not name or further identify, also appear to have been involved...