Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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True enough. But the military resources needed for such a task were well beyond what the U.S. was able or willing to commit. In the judgment of one Pentagon official, bringing enough order to Lebanon to enable formation of a true central government would have required not 1,600 Marines but 100,000 U.S. troops-and even then, the depth of sectarian hatreds, which Washington appears to have totally misjudged, might have made the task impossible...
...most adroit neorealists, Marsha Norman. She won her reputation with the 1979 drama about a woman's leaving prison, Getting Out, and last year received the Pulitzer Prize for 'Night, Mother, a mundanely detailed conversation over cocoa and marshmallows between a daughter who intends to commit suicide and a mother desperate to stop her. Now, in Traveler in the Dark, Norman has turned away from the art-as-life style and has crafted a witty, eloquent, far-ranging and altogether too clever play...
...findings make survivability and retaliation unnecessary. A first strike attack even one directed at just military targets, would cause enough of a nuclear winter to "wipe out all the grain growing regions of the United states, Canada and the Soviet Union." A nation launching a first strike will effectively commit suicide regardless of the adversary's response. As Sagan put it in a recent lecture at the Kennedy School, "the attacked nation need not lift a finger for retribution swift and final to fall on the aggressor...
...Crimson-plagued all season by inexperience as seven spots on its 12-man are filled by freshmen--demonstrated in the face of the six-point deficit by forcing the Tigers to commit a rash of personal fouls and turnovers that eventually gave Harvard the game...
Demed their own place in society, they are more readily inclined to become involved in crime. Because convicted criminals have made that decision once before, crime becomes easier to commit, explains Leslie H. Moeller...