Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...element of surprise is incredible," says Grady. "Criminals still aren't used to us whipping around the corner and taking drugs right out of their hands. They look around, don't see a patrolman, car or horse, and make the deal. We whip around and catch them...
...Mexico's attitude toward the entire phenomenon of undocumented migration to the U.S. is very contradictory. Whatever the U.S. does is unacceptable and useless. Those are contradictory statements, but we have an ambivalent and contradictory attitude. There is an obvious element of humiliation in the fact that we are not able to provide jobs for our own people. The only way many Mexicans can find a decent job is to go to the U.S. On the other hand, it's a fact that we feel we have a certain right to do that, because nobody is forcing American employers...
During the 18 months that he labored in his father's campaign headquarters, acting as the family enforcer among the hired handlers, Bush was often a bristly presence. "Junior," as Washington insiders called him, was out of his element back East, uncomfortable in his father's shadow once again. Of the five Bush children, George, the eldest, had always been the most drawn to Dad's patterns of endeavor. What rebellion he waged was stylistic. He became the real Texan in the family -- chewing tobacco, using barnyard humor, settling in the state's western corner -- the one harboring what...
...maintain "the effectiveness of the bomber leg of the strategic triad," the mix of land- and sea-based missiles and nuclear weapons carried by aircraft on which U.S. deterrence has been based. Welch contends that bombers are regarded by both the U.S. and the Soviets as "the most stabilizing element of the triad." Unlike missiles that can strike in 30 minutes or less, bombers need hours to reach their targets and hence do not represent a first-strike threat against the Soviets. Moreover, because they can take off and fly to safety when threatened, they can survive a Soviet attack...
...element of the package is the $100 million U.S. fund--provided Congress approves, to support the Polish private sector as the Soviet bloc country moves away from its Marxist economy...