Word: heel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Achilles Heel most often cited regarding a land based cruise missile program comes in the verification of numbers deployed; it's impossible. But then either country could have and hide as many as it wished anyway--so the point is moot. While the land based missiles cannot be verified, delivery vehicles in other parts of the triad (planes, subs and ships) can be. Decreasing the risk of war justifies a safe weapon buildup. Harvard Living With Nuclear Weapons authors wrote. "We conclude that the contributions of air launched cruise missiles to deterrence and crisis stability outweigh the potential costs...
Calling economics the Democratic party's "Achilles heel." Hollings outlined a four point economic revitalization plan to balance the budget, improve productivity through better education, improve American commercial competition abroad and decrease government restralat on business...
Haiti for example, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, is under the iron heel of Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier Despite the accounts of torture from refugees, religious groups. Amnesty International and others, the U.S. has stepped up arms sales to Duvalier. Thousands have fled Duvalier's reign of terror, hoping to return to a free country some day. Duvalier, with American guns and dollars, has shown he will commit the most brazen crimes to prevent that day from coming...
...traditional peasant dress still worn in Austria and parts of Germany. With their tight torsos and broad, billowing skirts, the Kamali dresses ($96) are sure to turn heads. To go with her clothes, the designer has come up with perhaps the most eccentric item of the season: pigskin high-heel shoes encased in vulcanized rubber that lace up over the ankles ($45). Kamali may give new life to the old rock-'n'-roll exhortation from...
...your high-heel sneakers...