Word: generalize
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...strikes. Another 40% disapproved. Asked if the U.S. has a moral imperative to stop Serb actions in Kosovo, 50% said yes and 41% no. The targets were reviewed with great care at the White House, where Secretary of Defense William Cohen and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Hugh Shelton, sat down with President Clinton to go over the list. Some important ones were struck off because they were too close to civilian buildings...
Even military experts disagree on how dangerous these missions will be. "Plinking his tanks will be a piece of cake," predicts Merrill ("Tony") McPeak, the retired general who ran the Air Force during the Gulf War. "Plinking," perfected during the Gulf War, used the contrast between sun-warmed tanks and cooler desert sand to help pilots target the tanks with infrared equipment. How well that will work in the forested Balkans remains to be seen. But retired Navy Admiral Leighton Smith--who ordered NATO's first-ever bombing raid, against Bosnian Serb targets in 1994--thinks the tactic...
...partnership in exchange for a proportional interest in it. After seven years, the partnership dissolves and each partner redeems his interest "in kind." That means partners are given equal amounts of all the stocks in the fund. It's a nifty way to launder, say, 50,000 shares of General Motors into about 500 shares each of 100 different companies without having to sell and pay an immediate tax on the capital gain...
DIED. HENRY GRAHAM, 82, even-keeled former National Guard general who helped control some of the country's most explosive civil rights battles; of Parkinson's disease; in Birmingham, Ala. On June 11, 1963, Graham told George Wallace to step aside when the Alabama Governor stood in the entrance to a University of Alabama building, trying to prevent the school's desegregation (see Eulogy...
...summer afternoon in June 1963, a small-statured military man knocked at my dormitory door at the University of Alabama. He announced himself to be HENRY GRAHAM. After a brief introduction--he was the National Guard general who had paved the way for me to walk past Governor George Wallace earlier that day, thus desegregating the university--he said in his polished and militaristic style, "I just came by to see who it was that had brought me down here to this hot-as-hell, God-awful place because he or she wanted to go to school." He said...