Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jackson is plainly needled by Dukakis' apparent bias toward older and less compelling public men, whom Jackson caustically regards as either in "semiretirement" or capable only of "gestures without very much importance." Jackson won't openly criticize a Dukakis-John Glenn ticket, but will say the ticket should be "one step in the present and one in the future, not one step in the present and one in the past...
...that radar-screen blip could lose his ship and the lives of all those aboard. That almost happened in May 1987 to the frigate Stark. It was hit by two missiles launched in error by an Iraqi plane. The ship was severely damaged, 37 crewmen were killed, and Captain Glenn Brindel was pressured into retirement for failing to take defensive action...
...scientific endeavors have generated more excitement than research into superconductivity, which could lead to marvels like magnetically levitated trains. But U.S. companies may already be in danger of losing the markets for superconductor-based products. Says Senator John Glenn, who unveiled a new report from the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment last week: "As with semiconductors and videocassette recorders, the U.S. appears on the verge of missing opportunities offered by a new technology based on a science in which the U.S. is the pre-eminent leader...
Washington: Strobe Talbott, Stanley W. Cloud, David Aikman, David Beckwith, Gisela Bolte, Ricardo Chavira, Michael Duffy, Glenn Garelik, Ted Gup, Jerry Hannifin, Steven Holmes, Richard Hornik, Jay Peterzell, Barrett Seaman, Elaine Shannon, Alessandra Stanley, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver New York: Bonnie Angelo, Joelle Attinger, Margot Hornblower, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Jeanne McDowell, Raji Samghabadi, Janice C. Simpson, Martha Smilgis, Wayne Svoboda Boston: Robert Ajemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cristina Garcia Los Angeles: Dan Goodgame, Jonathan Beaty, Scott Brown, Elaine...
...perhaps the more relevant comparison--at least to explain why Captain Will C. Rogers III shot at the mistakenly-identified aircraft--is the U.S.S. Stark tragedy of just over a year ago. In that incident, Capt. Glenn R. Brindel failed to respond to Iraqi planes attacking his ship, and 37 members of his crew died as a result. After an ensuing investigation, Brindel was forced to retire from the navy...