Word: half
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regards China [June 6] is a sound and moderately argued one-perhaps over-moderately. For example, when you pointed out that China "has been involved less dramatically outside its borders than the Soviet Union," you might have added "and than the U.S.," which currently deploys a million and a half of its armed forces in bases scattered around the world, while China's troops are all at home where they (and, for the most part, we) belong...
...Laird, under heavy pressure to cut further the $77.6 billion defense budget that many consider a prime cause of inflation, jettisoned the Air Force's six-year-old space-exploration project known as MOL, for Manned Orbiting Laboratory. By dropping the program, the Administration will save just over half of MOL's $3 billion projected cost. Budget Director Robert P. Mayo announced that henceforth the defense budget will receive the same scrutiny as that of any other department, instead of going directly to the President -though skeptics doubted whether the new ruling would last beyond the first showdown...
...When I sit down with the boss [management], I tell him how much it's gonna cost him in welfare, hospitalization and all that. I make a package out of it. [I say] it's gonna cost $100,000 a year. Let's cut it in half and forget about it. I show him how much I'm gonna save [him] by walking away...
DURING the past 23 years, more than half of the world's governments have been overthrown by coups d'etat. Conspirators are increasingly aware that complex societies are vulnerable to attack. Slash a wire, start a rumor, dump LSD into reservoirs: today any determined guerrilla can stop The System. One man with one bullet can change history. A handful can take over a country...
...they are. But the younger Irish have known for some time that this depends on remaining outside history; that the culture which has been mummified so long, and looks so fresh, may well crumble at the first blast of fresh air. There are parts of it they would not half mind losing, the strengths and weaknesses being so inextricably entwined...