Word: commander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attendance will be government leaders from the U.S., Britain, Canada, West Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Iceland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Greece, Turkey and Spain. Since France's formal withdrawal from NATO'S military command in 1966, its President does not attend summit meetings. Mitterrand, however, will be at the opening dinner. Premier Pierre Mauroy will represent France at the summit...
...spending cuts and tax increases that would hold the red ink even to those figures, the legislators fragmented into splinter groups. Conservatives would accept no big cut in military expenditures. Liberals would buy no severe slash in social outlays. Leaders of the controlling Democrats and the minority Republicans lost command of their troops, who rejected frantic pleas that they pass something-anything...
...harsh news of British losses at sea only seemed further to stiffen the resolve of Prime Minister Thatcher. Aides described her as being completely confident of her position, completely in command of herself. The personal traits that have made her so many political enemies?her combative nature, her refusal to bend to indecision or doubt?had singularly suited her to fulfilling the role of a wartime Prime Minister. General Galtieri may look haggard and Foreign Secretary Pym troubled, but Thatcher, close up, showed not a bit of strain. Her firm, clear voice ringing through the House of Commons, she defended...
...Thunderbolt 11 is a most unsophisticated plane. Pilots joke about being struck from behind by birds." That harsh assessment of an Air Force attack plane designed to provide close air support for battlefield troops comes from a top general of the Tactical Air Command. Why, then, is there $357 million in the Pentagon's fiscal 1983 budget for 20 more of the aircraft, each of which is $1.6 million costlier than the more sophisticated F-16 Fighting Falcon? The answer, insists the general: "We are buying them only because of political pressure...
...respectively. People who paid $61,100 for a one-karat investment diamond are finding that it is worth only about $18,000. Some forms of fine art, like Impressionist paintings and antique American furniture, have kept their value. Others have fallen in price: Old Master paintings now command 18% less than they did 20 months...