Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...means been adequate to the size of the problem. Nonetheless, they have won him bipartisan respect. Says Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee: "He inherited a nightmare at the Defense Department, and he has shown exemplary leadership by turning it into merely a bad dream. He gets absolutely the highest marks...
...budget authority zoomed from $144 billion to $295 billion. The Pentagon's appetite for deluxe weaponry swallowed up so much of those titanic sums that the buildup failed to achieve some major goals. Overall, it did bring a much needed improvement in U.S. combat strength. But Ronald Reagan's dream of an Army of 18 full-strength divisions, a 40-wing Air Force and a 600-ship Navy remains unfulfilled. The budget for fiscal 1989 funds 18 trimmed-down divisions, 35 wings and 580 fighting ships...
...evoked by the 1987 movie Dirty Dancing. The shrewdly calculated saga of a girl's coming of age in 1963, the film Dirty Dancing is responsible more than anything else for this new slew of what might be called pube rock. The movie was so perfect a young teen dream, it became almost poignant. You had to see it to believe it, and many did. Dirty Dancing pulled in $65 million at the box office and is still going strong at the video stores...
...like Dukakis can never be nominated because he would be unable to devote enough time to contest Iowa. The Bush campaign is a balloon kept aloft by a thin membrane of inevitability, so the prick of a single bad defeat will send it sputtering to earth. And that fanciful dream of reporters everywhere: with so many candidates in both parties, at least one of the races is certain to go all the way to a deadline-defying finish at the convention...
...first and most obvious question: Who on earth would go to the considerable trouble of making a glass church materialize in the Australian outback? Why, Oscar and Lucinda, naturally. But who are (or were) they, what brought them together, and why did they conceive such a pointless, improbable dream? Explanations, as the author supplies them, grow ever less simple and more entertaining...