Word: complement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shone brightly as technicians aboard the destroyer U.S.S. Coontz checked over its complement of guided missiles. Suddenly, at 3:05 p.m. last Tuesday, a flash and a roar broke the quiet of the tropic afternoon. Officers on the bridge watched horrified as a 15-ft.-long Harpoon, loaded with high explosives, soared off over the blue-green waters of the Caribbean toward the resort island of St. Croix. It vanished completely...
...immediate cause of Seawell's trouble was buying National Airlines, which Pan Am obtained in 1980 for $394 million. The deal climaxed a longtime company effort to gain domestic routes to feed and complement its international runs. But after 18 months, Pan Am still has not resolved labor questions between itself and National, let alone taken advantage of whatever moneymaking opportunities exist along what were National's routes. Sloppy ground and air service on Pan Am domestic flights have also tarnished its once shining reputation. Moreover, National's employees have not learned to think globally. Says...
...choreography is a harmonious combination of motion and music, which complement each other rather than existing in an uneasy alliance. Says Kylian, who studied both music and dance at the Prague Conservatory: "The minute I have total trust in the music, I go out of my way to find out why the composer has written what he has, and try to make my choreography equivalent to the music...
...songs, like those of his crony and frequent collaborator Butch Hancock, are bleak and wistful and angry, awash in the colors that Joe picked up on all of his magical misery tours. Ely's band, along with the traditional complement of bass, rhythm guitar and drums, also includes a sax and an accordion, so its sound sometimes takes on Tex-Mex overtones, or even a certain savor from Cajun territory. Ely's sources are scrupulously eclectic. Perhaps his nearest spiritual peer is that old renegade Jerry Lee Lewis. Live Shots contains one old tune, Fingernails, that may once...
Weinberger may yet turn out to be a politically adept complement to Haig as a spokesman for the Administration's tough foreign and military posture. He has the bureaucratic and managerial talents to carry out Reagan's mandate to improve the country's defenses. But Weinberger has some distance to go. On several occasions he has compared his present job with his last Cabinet post, as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Richard Nixon. As Cap puts it: "The difference is that at HEW you could afford a mistake...