Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been cut back. There are only a dozen squadrons of F106 fighters-mostly assigned to the Air National Guard-with a primary mission of intercepting Soviet bombers. With large-scale production already under way of the Backfire-a new, supersonic Soviet intercontinental warplane-Russia will narrow the bomber gap. Meanwhile, the U.S. Air Force's supersonic B-l is still in the development stage and faces stiff opposition in Congress...
...submarines are less noisy (thus more difficult to detect), and U.S.A.F. F-4s and F-15s are more versatile and powerful than the Russian MIG 21s and MIG 23s. What worries the analysts is that this superiority may not last, since the Soviets seem determined to narrow the quality gap. Moscow publishes no figures on its military expenditures, but the Soviet Union seems to be devoting an ever greater share of national spending to defense. Pentagon experts estimate that last year's Soviet military budget was $141 billion; the U.S. spent $94 billion. In 1964 the U.S. spent...
...inside Angola. By maintaining complete contact with the peasantry and studying at close quarters the factors specific to the Angola struggle, UNITA succeeded in implanting within Angola's interior a solid infrastructure for guerrilla warfare and national reconstruction. Within a relatively brief period of existence UNITA significantly bridged the gap between intellectual leadership and the Angola reality of a massive peasant majority...
...WHILE SCORSESE succeeds viscerally in convincing us of the authenticity of the psychosis, there is a gap. It is never fully explained why Travis's violence would focus on Palantine rather than, say, on Betsy. Scorsese reaches for something very big here, and he falls a little bit short. "Something has to be done," Travis writes in his diary. "There's too much dirt, too much filth here. I just wish a big rain would come and wash it away." The frustration is conveyed, but the connection to political assassination is muddled...
When Yntema and Fullerton departed, the Crimson lost an unhealthy chunk of its first-place potential, and so Harvard will have to aim for a swarm of second through sixth place finishes. While the top 12 finishers collect points, there is a four-point gap between sixth and seventh...