Word: holding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democrats held their convention in the Omni in Atlanta, and had to turn VIPs and members of the press away when they ran out of room. The Republicans, however, have plenty of room in the Superdome, which is large enough to hold George Bush and 35,000 of his friends...
Schlesinger is right that "nuclear weapons and nuclear strategy hold NATO together" but wrong to accuse Dukakis of failing to understand that truth. Part of what deters conventional war in Europe is the possibility that such a conflict would escalate to general nuclear war. That is why our allies were so concerned when President Reagan, during his meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev at Reykjavik in 1986, was willing to abolish nuclear weapons and thus abandon nuclear deterrence altogether...
Such worries are groundless, argue analysts in Tokyo. The Japanese attribute the high price-earnings ratios in part to accounting rules that allow companies to understate earnings to keep their taxes lower. Another factor propping up prices is so-called cross-holding of stock. Because many Japanese companies hold large blocks of other companies' stock, which out of tradition are seldom traded, fewer shares are available for purchase so their prices rise...
...results so far have been mixed. The Soviets and their Warsaw Pact allies hold a 2-to-1 advantage over the U.S. and NATO in numbers of tanks, for example. Yet Moscow's armored force includes large numbers of the undersized and underpowered T-55 and T-62 models. The new T-80 travels at a sluggish 40 m.p.h., but is equipped with a lethal 125-mm cannon and laser-guided fire control. One big advance is shields of "reactive" armor that explode on contact to deflect projectiles fired by all but the newest NATO tanks...
...These are my hills," a Coal Valley News editorialist wrote more than 30 years ago. His words are no less pertinent today: "I do not hold title to the lands, but I reap every benefit and every injury to them. Believe it or not, you and I are the guardians of these hills. They are God's hills and we are the keepers. More than that, we shall inherit the manifold blessings of the hills. They are our hills...