Word: counts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Schlesinger is an able, experienced practitioner in national security matters, but his attack on Governor Dukakis' defense positions is seriously misleading. We should examine issues rather than count visits to military bases...
...also important to improve NATO's capability to wage conventional war, so as to convince Soviet decision makers that they cannot count on a quick victory in Western Europe. That does not mean giving NATO a capability to "win" in the classic sense -- any more than our ability to destroy the U.S.S.R. in retaliation for a nuclear attack on the U.S. means an ability to "win" in a strategic war. It is a combination of nuclear and conventional capabilities that deters. That is what Dukakis seeks...
Like all the other ninth-graders in Belmont, Josh took a semester-long health class taught by Joan MacClary. Josh filled his notebook with all sorts of facts: for example, alcohol reduces sperm count, though he noted in parentheses that "it will go back up." And Josh knows that because he weighs about 100 lbs. he would be legally drunk after three drinks...
...Pacific (it concentrates the mind to be shot out of the air and lose two crewmates); but Dukakis is not given to meditation, to reading books for their own sake, to what he dismisses as "introspection." His wife says, "I have never seen him read a novel, unless you count Nick Gage's Eleni as a novel." The Army was something to be done, once, like the marathon, in order for Michael to return to his real business...
Travis packed high school in when he was 15 ("I didn't even finish the ninth grade"), but the year before, he had commenced a different kind of education when he was caught driving drunk and trying to outrun a cop. "I can't count the times I've been in jail," he says. "I never had to go to prison, but once, for ten weeks, I had to go to the Monroe jail every Friday night and leave Monday morning." Finally, at about age 17, Randy got busted for breaking and entering. Looking at five years in prison...