Word: jettison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such a gradual transition just might placate white fears, while educating Blacks to run the country along with the whites. It would not jettison firm ties with the West; it would bypass the polarization and strife that come with revolution...
...controversy. "Nancy is horrified," said one intimate. "It's a bad dream for her." Some staffers are especially nettled since Allen, unlike Stockman, is not considered central to the making of policy; they believe that, even if Allen is cleared, the incident gives them the chance to jettison him on grounds of bad judgment. Said one top official: "Allen presents an opportunity. David presents a problem...
...problem is, as Rousseau might have known, men of that caliber don't come along any too often, when they do, they rarely make the compromises necessary to reach adequately influential positions. Visionaries able to persuade without compelling, and convincing enough to sway millions to jettison their selfish tendencies are a vanishing breed (and never a big species in the first place...
Which is to say nothing new, except that it was bound to happen--that eventually someone would have the gumption to just jettison all the psychological persiflage in favor of the basic things that make people gape. Heroes and adventure...
...crash could take as long as six months, and the investigators will lack some evidence in their search for explanations: hours after the accident, the EA-6B and the two unsalvageable F-14s were pushed overboard. Captain John Batzler, the Nimitz's commanding officer, was authorized to jettison the three irreparable aircraft by Vice Admiral George E.R. Kinnear, Commander of Naval Air Forces Atlantic, who flew to the Nimitz hours after the crash. The wrecked fighters still carried their loads of unexploded missiles and ammunition, which posed a danger to ship and crew...