Word: expending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regiments fight down to 400 or 500 men before pulling them back to refit. Giap, moreover, has been uncharacteristically reckless in his use of tanks. A U.S. officer in Saigon who saw tank duty in World War II says: "I never saw the Germans or ourselves expend armor at a rate comparable to the North Vietnamese. Last week they moved 25 tanks east of Quang Tri in broad daylight. All of them were destroyed or damaged. That's kind of foolhardy...
...Indochina battle-field hides the fact that the Nixon Administration does not really fear that Hanoi and the PRG can do much damage to the Thieu regime during Tet, the lunar new year. When questioned about the situation a highly placed official appeared to hope that Hanoi would expend all its energies during Tet on the theory that its whole military apparatus would be destroyed. During the next four years that Hanoi would require to rebuild its forces, the 'force of reason' and a decrease in Russian and Chinese aid would convince Hanoi to negotiate a settlement. The official also...
POLITICS is a monster in the land; it is bigger, louder, more expensive than ever, even if the latest campaign-spending-limitation bill becomes law. It is airplanes, polls and delegate counts. It is cocktail parties, TV cameras and ghostwriters. The campaign of '72 just might expend more national energy and resources than any in history and enlighten the people less...
...other side of the Honda phenomenon. The Honda is a handicap from the cost and saving side. But it may also be a strong force motivating the economy to exert itself. Economic development depends on rising expectations and on the ability and the willingness of the country to expend effort. Despite the fact that government policies have militated against national saving, the attitude of the individual, as one observes him in the country and the cities, is directed to industry rather than idleness...
...money deployed on buying art and the money available for preserving masterpieces that cannot, by their nature or circumstances, be sold -unmovable art like buildings, frescoes, or even entire cities of cherishable antique beauty. Only a spectacular disaster like the Florence flood of November 1966 will provoke people to expend large sums of money on saving art that they do not own. Because of the publicity campaigns mounted by organizations to save Venice from decaying into an empty, waterlogged Renaissance Disneyland, it may yet stand some chance of at least partial preservation as a city. But the Parthenon, under...