Word: flanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reluctant concession for the U.S., which regards the fighters as a crucial link in the defense of NATO's southern flank. But Socialist Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez insisted that the withdrawal was necessary to comply with a promise to reduce the U.S. military presence in Spain in return for passage of a 1986 referendum endorsing the country's continued membership in NATO. Agreement on the F-16 issue should also smooth the way for a new treaty that will allow continued U.S. access to other bases on Spanish soil...
...this week to begin service for the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, is a glittering symbol of a new Golden Age for passenger ships. In the 1950s the onset of jet travel left the * cruise industry dead in the water. But through the '80s the business has been growing at flank speed. Roughly 1.5 million North Americans took cruises in 1982; by 1987 that figure had doubled...
BUSINESS: Profits ahoy ! The cruise- line industry is growing at flank speed again...
...both hope and optimism." But his speech included many declarations of his fundamental opposition to Soviet policies and philosophy. To some extent, Reagan was merely reverting to old familiar themes out of habit. But with an eye to the ratification process, he was also shoring up his right flank against charges by increasingly jumpy conservatives that he has gone soft on the Soviets...
...anyone who watched a humbled Reagan introduce him to the country last week can't believe that the president was happy with the nomination. Battered, bruised and beaten by the Bork and Ginsburg fiascos, the Administration's right-flank--which, strangely enough, includes the President--has been forced to swallow its ideological pride and promise to support for the Court a nominee with whom they clearly are not enamored...