Word: counterfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lines of command, in the coordination of differently trained and equipped soldiers, in attempts to simply speak with one another -- all had been pointed up as potentially fatal pitfalls facing such an ungainly coalition. Yet the so-called AirLand strategy, adopted in the 1980s by NATO as a counter to a Soviet invasion of Western Europe, proved to be more than a knockout military punch. Because NATO relies on a central command of joint forces, the doctrine managed surprisingly well to integrate the polyglot gulf alliance...
...important factors helped make the Pentagon's public relations campaign a success. First, the story was nearly all positive for the allies: courting favorable press coverage is much easier when there is little bad news to downplay or counter. Second, the war was short. Managing the news would surely have grown tougher if the ground war had dragged...
...counter the recession, the Federal Reserve has loosened its grip on the money supply, bringing interest rates down and expanding the economy's cash flow, said both Holmes and McGilzreay...
...China's leading dissidents, was led in. Stepping into the dock, he looked up at the gallery -- and into the eyes of his mother and his sister. It had been more than a year since they had seen him. For the next five hours, prosecutors harangued Chen as a counter-revolutionary who had financed the 1989 student rebellion in Tiananmen Square. Despite his 40-min. rebuttal, the trial moved inexorably to its verdict: guilty, with a sentence of 13 years in prison...
There were no counter-protests or demonstrators, as there have been at other Middle East-oriented events. In fact, during the entire day of tabling, only a handful of people brought up political issues in Israel, at which point we directed them to the carefully worded letter that they were being asked to sign...