Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This time, in the suburbs of Cairo, the mind lost to the sword, to grenades and automatic rifles and the fleet precision of fanaticism making one of its abrupt, savagely familiar hits upon the world's hope for something better...
...Santa Fe could turn out to be Kuwait's most successful diversification move yet. The nation's government-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corp., which is directed by Sheik Ali Khalifa al-Sabah, the country's Oil Minister, already operates a fleet of more than a dozen supertankers. Earlier this year, the firm entered into joint ventures with U.S. companies, giving it a $185 million share in a Hawaiian oil refinery as well as participation in a U.S. oil exploration group. Kuwait, though, has not always been able to buy its way into the American market.Its 1980 attempt...
...best of these biographical and literary essays flash with the fervor and assurance of a man nurtured on late Victorian intellectuality, steeped in 1930s radicalism and tempered by more than 30 years on Fleet Street. He makes no apology for his bookishness: "Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power." He draws a charming portrait of his father, who passed on his bibliophilia, and a colorfully contradictory one of his father-figure, Lord Beaverbrook. Foot reminisces warmly about his exasperating fellow journalist Randolph Churchill, but repeats the remark that...
Although the report depicts the Kremlin as trying to tip the military balance in its favor, the study lacks any systematic comparison with U.S. or allied forces. The Soviets, for example, have nothing in their naval arsenal to match the U.S. fleet of 13 aircraft carriers. While NATO is outflanked by Soviet tanks, the allies have beefed up their defenses with thousands of antitank missiles. Nevertheless, Gregory Treverton, assistant director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, in London, complimented the report for its exhaustive detail and declared that it "does not overemphasize Soviet power." The Government Printing Office...
Penske simply flipped the ball to the fleet 5-ft., 5-in. sophomore, and Walsh found himself looking like General Custer again as Cornell went...