Word: fixedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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All the conventional rules of timing and location should make Barry Rutenberg's profitable homebuilding business especially robust these days. His Gainesville, Florida, company is in one of the fastest-growing parts of the fast-growing Southeast, and the spring buying season is under way. Money is easy: fixed-rate...
A remarkable thing happened. I was photocopying several pages from the Emergency Preparedness Digest when I spotted a smallish demure woman copying Jane's Defense Weekly. In fact, she was copying issue after issue. I sauntered over to her copy machine and began to riffle through one of the issues...
Today's world confronts the U.S. with nothing remotely like Vietnam. There is no global struggle with communism to drag America into every brush-fire conflict from Yemen to Angola. U.S. Presidents have the freedom to pick their wars and fight them as they choose, without worrying about setting off...
By the time the NVA infantry moved in, Tan Son Nhut could be used only by helicopters. Bao Ninh, a corporal with a reconnaissance team of the North Vietnamese Third Army, recalls lying on the roof of a three-story concrete building at the edge of a runway on the...
It was not only enemy action that closed down the runways. Says General Smith: "At first light [on the 29th] the Vietnamese air force took off," dumping loads--sometimes including bombs and sometimes on runways--to lighten their planes. Then ground crews moved bulldozers and other heavy equipment onto the...