Word: illness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spot in the first place. Tower, whose slicked-back hair and double-breasted pinstripe suits sometimes give him the look of a Mafia capo, had several strikes against him. Having been Senate Armed Services Committee chairman during the first four years of the Reagan buildup, he seemed ill-equipped to oversee the Bush slowdown. On the Hill, Tower had a reputation as a man who couldn't say no to a weapons system. He was regarded by his own backers as autocratic and impatient with lesser minds -- a "mean s.o.b." who never got along well with key members of Congress...
...also died, and two passengers were injured. Nir, a former aide to Shimon Peres and to Yitzhak Shamir, worked closely with North in the sale of U.S. arms to Iran, traveled with him to Tehran in the attempted arms-for-hostage exchanges and briefed Vice President Bush on the ill-fated scheme...
...Perhaps it's not too widely known that you were the young intelligence officer portrayed in Cornelius Ryan's A Bridge Too Far. What led you to advise against the ill-fated British attack on Arnhem, in German-occupied Holland...
...company mired in debt can ill afford to build new plants or develop new products, since most of its earnings go to pay off borrowings. The shortage of investment can then dampen U.S. growth and damage the ability of American firms to compete abroad. In a slump, the impact can be dramatic. A study by the Washington-based Brookings Institution, a liberal think tank, estimated that a new recession could jolt 10% of major U.S. companies into bankruptcy...
...trilogy Berlin Game, Mexico Set and London Match. Samson's career was not advanced by his wife Fiona's defection to the Soviet Union or by the unreliability of the KGB operative Samson had enticed to the West. And, to top it off, field-wise Bernard found himself ill-suited to maneuvering inside the bureaucracy at London headquarters...