Word: generality
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Institute of Politics Director Richard L. Thornburgh concluded his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last Friday and is expected to be confirmed later this week as the next attorney general before Congress goes into recess for the Republican National Convention, Senate aides said yesterday...
...live up to expectations, Congress created the Pentagon's Office of Operational Test and Evaluation in 1983 with a clear mandate: test all major new weapons systems under realistic "operational" conditions. No new systems would be purchased in significant quantities without approval from OT&E. But according to a General Accounting Office report, OT&E has been a failure...
Schlesinger is right that "nuclear weapons and nuclear strategy hold NATO together" but wrong to accuse Dukakis of failing to understand that truth. Part of what deters conventional war in Europe is the possibility that such a conflict would escalate to general nuclear war. That is why our allies were so concerned when President Reagan, during his meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev at Reykjavik in 1986, was willing to abolish nuclear weapons and thus abandon nuclear deterrence altogether...
Many analysts expect the Nikkei index to break the 30,000-yen barrier sometime this year. Says Hideo Nakazawa, general manager of Nomura's equity department: "We may hit some bumps, but the direction is up." Yet even Tokyo is unlikely to disprove the adage so often cited by bears in markets the world over: "No tree grows...
...nature of the job may also have taken its toll. Japanese managing directors, unlike general managers of U.S. teams, seldom arrange trades or put together rosters. Yet they are held responsible if the team fares badly. They usually have no background in the sport and are employed directly by the large corporations that finance the teams. Furuya, who had worked since 1955 for the Hanshin Electric Railway Co., the Tigers' owner, oversaw operations at Koshien Stadium before being appointed managing director. Furuya was "too earnest, sincere and had too strong a sense of responsibility," observed noted Sports Commentator Shinya Sasaki...