Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Keller distinguished between goals and quotas, saying that while quotas are "hard and fast requirements," the affirmative action goals are "based on reasonable expectations--they're what you're trying...
...Iran, by far the world's major arms importer, is buying six fast Spruance-class destroyers from the U.S.'s Litton Industries at a cost of $110 million each...
...been limited to conventional weapons, but that too may change. Denouncing the "monstrous logic" of his country's policy of exporting nearly any weapon to nearly any nation, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, publisher of L'Express and head of France's Radical Party, fears that the day is fast approaching when Paris will sell atomic arms. The U.S. has provided half a dozen nations with planes or missiles capable of delivering a nuclear punch, as have the Soviets...
...aggressive as their Continental rivals. "Britain has darn few salesmen," complains one English arms expert. "There's a lack of push among recent efforts, and morale is terrible." Nonetheless, Britain last year sold an impressive $1.5 billion in arms, accounting for about 8% of world transfers. Frigates, submarines and fast patrol boats went to Latin America. Iran bought more than 1,000 Chieftain and 300 Scorpion tanks. Black Africa, Saudi Arabia and Egypt have shown considerable interest in the Scorpion, a light aluminum tank with great mobility...
Intoxicating Malice. O'Hanlon's most controversial, heart-rending chap ter is one in which he blames the Ul ster savagery on the frustrations of Irish family life. In the Catholic Republic and the outposts in Londonderry and Bel fast, he argues, swarms of unwanted children bedevil hopeless parents: "Any body who lives in Ireland can testify to the absence of love in the average home." Fathers drink too much, then beat their wives and children with heavy, indiscriminate hands. Violence learned at the hearth is later re-enacted in the Irish Republican Army...