Word: lip
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...decades after their successful revolutions, both communist giants built massive ground forces equipped with heavy tanks and artillery. Since the 1970s, their military leaders have also given lip service to the need for lighter, faster forces and high-tech weapons. Partly out of bureaucratic inertia and largely because their economies were not up to the task, neither country actually moved into the modern military age of microelectronics. "People talk as if the Soviets haven't done their best, and have to do better," says Stephen Meyer, a military expert at M.I.T. "The point is, their best wasn't good enough...
...unnamed male narrator comes by his stiff upper lip naturally. In his early 50s, he has been a successful physician, and is now a Tory M.P. on the way up. He has a beautiful wife, two talented children; he has, he confesses, "never faced a serious moral dilemma." Then he meets Anna Barton, his son Martyn's new girlfriend: "Just for a moment I had met my sort, another of my species." So has she, evidently, because before long the two are tearing at each other's clothes on a floor in Anna's London house...
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir cannot pay anything more than lip service even to his own 1989 plan for elections to choose Palestinian leaders, who would negotiate some form of limited autonomy. Otherwise his government might well be toppled by rightist members who want to annex the territories outright. The Labor Party, which accepts the idea of land for peace, has never had less popular support. So new elections might well return a government even further to the right than the present Likud-led coalition...
...Arab bankrollers and the Israeli peaceniks. "The Palestinian path no longer goes through Arafat," says a senior U.S. diplomat. Some of the chairman's supporters suggest he may have to step down to restore the Palestinians' shattered credibility. Even that might not help. Though the Arab regimes pay lip service to their cause, blind attachment to Saddam has cost the Palestinians respect and sympathy everywhere. At the same time, the war has intensified the naked hatred between Palestinians and Israelis, making any mutual accommodation harder still...
...looked too good to be true. Posters advertising a speech by Frank Farian, "former producer of Milli Vanilli speaking on: Lip-Synching and the Law" dotted the campus this week. The poster looked like others announcing events at the Law School forum, so a Crimson reporter was dispatched to cover the auspicious event...