Word: inheritence
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...When I was made commander of this place, I thought, 'What did I do to inherit a junkyard?' " says Air Force Colonel Henry Gronewald, who has had the job since June 1974. In fact, Gronewald has more planes under his command than any other base commander in the U.S. Air Force. He soon discovered that the base he commands is more than a giant junkyard, although one MASDC task is reclaiming usable parts from those planes that will never fly again. The Pentagon transmits a weekly computerized "save list," and in a special hangar MASDC maintenance mechanics...
Indeed, today's favored arms customer may become tomorrow's Frankenstein monster. Governments can change abruptly; a coup in Iran or Saudi Arabia might bring to power a regime as radical as that of Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. The new leader would inherit a cache of the latest military hardware, which he would almost surely use against the interest of the Western states that originally provided it. Just as odd is the U.S.'s massive arming of Persian Gulf states, at the very moment when it is hinting that military intervention might be necessary if the West faced economic...
...wink of a photographer's lens, they stand to gether smiling, rock-'n'-roll women in sequined chiffon and funky jeans. But they pay dearly for success. The rock business is a road business. Once the euphoria of the first room-service sir loin evaporates, they inherit a numbing chronology of concrete tunnels, cold buffets and limousine-driving dopers...
Tonis's successor will inherit cruisers, a professional staff, the security patrol, and new communications system and everything else Tonis has added to the Harvard University Police. But despite all the equipment and manpower, the new police chief will also inherit the task of figuring just what it will take to reduce, or at least level off, Harvard's whopping crime rate
...Daddy's elder son, Gooper, is a greedy lawyer slavering to inherit the estate, and is married to Mae, a snotty and equally money-minded mother of an ever-expanding obnoxious brood of "no-neck monsters." The younger son, Brick, is an ex-athlete fallen into alcoholism, who refuses to become involved with anyone, including his wife Maggie. She is thus not only sexually frustrated and childless but, born into poverty, also fearful of losing the wealth into which she married. On the sidelines is the Reverend Tooker, a local clergyman adept at sniffing a fat bequest for a church...