Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Army's 24 Apache helicopters--slowed by the need to ship humanitarian supplies into the region--created a perception that the Army couldn't get those choppers to war promptly and that the Pentagon was chicken to use them once they got there. Moreover, despite decades of chatter about fast, light forces, the U.S. Army still can't move a major fighting force quickly into place. That's a problem that Shelton, among others, wants fixed quickly...
...even if the Army is never fast and light, the U.S. military will still possess an unmatchable tactical dominance over its opponents. That worries some Pentagon thinkers. In the next conflict, they fret, a really smart foe won't fight the U.S. in the skies or on the ground--places where victory is unlikely. Instead, it will be smart and strike far away from the war zone--in the heart of a major U.S. city, perhaps--with chemical or biological weapons. Even the slickest Stealth bomber couldn't stop that...
Deciding on these kinds of details took hours. Talbott, Chernomyrdin and Ahtisaari haggled on through the night over two other issues--how fast the Serbs had to leave and how central NATO would be to the peacekeeping force. Washington held out for a swift timetable, and "Strobe just hammered to make sure the document had NATO at the core," says a senior U.S. official. When the exhausted diplomats reconvened Wednesday morning, Ahtisaari threatened to pull out if there was no agreement, and Chernomyrdin conceded. Now Moscow had sided with NATO, leaving Milosevic isolated...
...silver Honda Civic leaves Kevin Greenlee's house and tools across Pleasanton, a fast-growing town 30 miles east of San Francisco. We're headed for the local Bay Area Rapid Transit station, where Greenlee, 41, an investments manager, will park the car for the day. It will not be waiting for him when he returns. While he rides a San Francisco-bound commuter train, someone else will get in the car and drive away. After that, five more people will get behind the wheel and put close to 100 miles on the Honda. Greenlee doesn't mind. "I just...
NOON. Glassley and Meike hop into the Honda--which is labeled with an F--to grab a fast lunch. I ask about the annoyance of the other drivers' fiddling with the radio presets. "That's turned out to be a great thing," Meike says. "Every time I get into the car, I discover a new station." While she talks, she dumps hot sauce onto a taco and feeds it to Glassley, taking care not to muss up the seat for the next driver...