Word: complements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...duty one attack carrier that was slated for conversion to ASW, use it to bolster the Pacific's Seventh Fleet, which has often had to manage with no carrier at all. To man its expanding fleet, the Navy will take aboard 29,000 additional men, increasing its complement...
...turboprop Viscounts seven years ago had helped push Capital to the verge of bankruptcy. But for Hawaiian-born William ("Pat") Patterson, 61, United's president, the deal had more positive appeal. Capital's routes, running chiefly in the Southeast with extensions to the Midwest, neatly complement United's transcontinental and West Coast runs. Because of the nature of its runs, United has traditionally suffered a dip in revenue and equipment use during the winter months; hereafter it will be able to take up that slack by toting some of the Florida-bound Midwesterners whom Capital ferried...
Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt took grim care to ensure the safety of Puerto Rico-born Moscoso. No arrival time was published in the press; inflammatory wall scribblings were quickly erased. The complement of 80 national guardsmen stationed along the superhighway from the airport to the capital was reinforced by 1,200 troops. Sirens screaming, 20 police cars escorted Moscoso to the embassy residence...
Implicitly, the book assumes that orthodox problems of strategy are receiving plenty of attention--in a sense, strategy can take care of itself--but that arms control, the necessary complement to strategy, needs a boost...
...Communist Party is today shorn of power in Iraq. Instead of flaunting political and economic hostility when Kassim began trade with Russia, the English set out to replace their discarded economic relations with more equitable trade agreements. Kassim was not forced, therefore, to regear his economy; Soviet trade could complement, but not dictate, Iraqi development...