Word: high
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most extensive and embarrassing examination of the IRS since Watergate. While the subcommittee has not discovered the widespread bribes, kickbacks and blackmail that led to an overhaul of the IRS in the 1950s, its yearlong probe has unearthed evidence of disturbing misconduct: several instances of alleged wrongdoing by high-level IRS officials in the past five years and an attempted cover-up by the agency's image-conscious leaders...
...from the outside world, closing airports and telecommunications lines. By week's end the President announced that the coup had failed and vowed that his forces would "liquidate" the traitors. According to the State Ruling Council, most of the conspirators had surrendered. But the toll of the insurrection was high: nine generals, including the air force commander and the army Chief of Staff, had died...
...high when he sings and still hit below the belt. His secret is simple, elemental. Even laid-back, he sounds sexy, an inborn talent that was nurtured by some early vocational training. "You're talking to someone who used to be a male stripper," he says. "It was all show business, and it's probably helped with my presentation." Just so no one gets too comfy with what to expect of Gift, he has signed up to do a production of Romeo and Juliet later this year in the north of England, and is reading the script for a part...
...There is a lot of dissonance between what they say, which seems to have captured everyone's imagination in the belief that the cold war is over, and what is actually being done. For example, Mikhail Gorbachev talks about withdrawing 10,000 tanks, but Soviet tank production is very high. They're now producing about 3,000 tanks a year -- far better tanks, by the way, than anything they are talking about removing. Consider what just this one indicator means. They say, and I agree after having studied it, that it will take them about two years to pull back...
...First, they have compensated for the conventional-force imbalance between the alliance and the Soviet bloc. Second, and more important, they are a deterrent. They raise the level of uncertainty in the mind of a potential aggressor. He has to consider that the cost of war may be too high. It's the element of unpredictability of what might happen in a nuclear exchange that keeps war from happening. So regardless of whether we can ever get conventional-force parity, I believe nuclear weapons have an indispensable peacekeeping value irrespective of the conventional balance...