Word: dues
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...backed up by hard numbers. The Pentagon has indeed been on a long binge: in the eight years of the Reagan Administration, Congress will have handed it $2.2 trillion -- trillion! A good deal of that has been dribbled away in heedless, indiscriminate spending. Now the bills are coming due -- literally, in the case of a number of supersophisticated weapons systems nearing production. Meanwhile, the Defense Department has been forced by the overall federal budget squeeze to embrace a decidedly unfamiliar, and in its eyes hideous, new bride: austerity...
...carry out the slashes required in the future, the Pentagon will have to steel itself to cancel some of the shiny new weapons systems that it is about to buy. Over the next decade, the services are due to spend $80 billion for 132 radar-invisible Stealth bombers; $37.5 billion for 750 Advanced Tactical Fighters, the new jet that is supposed to replace the Air Force F-15; and an additional $35 billion for a Navy version of a similar aircraft...
...gnarled and twisted strength that implies the stoic wisdom of many gales survived. And it flowers every spring, with a glowing white fragrance that attracts the inquiries of the honeybee. Once its leaves are out, it provides shelter for the larks and thrushes that sing from its branches. In due time, the fading flowers turn into apples, offering a thousand fulfillments: apple pie, apple cake, applesauce, apple cider, apple butter, apple jelly, apple dumplings, apple tarts, apple pandowdy. Cut into pieces, the apple tree can be carpentered into a table, or at the least its kindlings will give...
...quixotic move? "Oh, the same reasons people always give when they run," he explained in typically languid fashion. "The proper issues aren't being presented; the people deserve a better choice." McCarthy has a book of essays due in August (Required Reading for 1988), and a campaign might help sales...
Pawloski and Sweeney have made people notice their style of play. Harvard gave up the fewest goals in the ECAC last year, much of that due to this senior duo. Both earned league honors...