Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That prospect is upsetting to the Carter Administration, and not just because of this country's abiding, almost sentimental "special relationship" with its former colony.* Washington is concerned about preserving the Philippines as its main military springboard in the Far East. In return for $500 million in military assistance over the next five years, the U.S. by treaty has "unhampered use" of the huge (97 sq. mi.) naval facility at Subic Bay and Clark Air Force Base on Luzon. Those installations face Indochina across the South China Sea. They played an important role in the Viet...
...What do you consider the main accomplishments of the past seven years...
...this same sensation many times on the centrifuge. As long as he just took it and didn't struggle, they wouldn't zap all those goddamned blue bolts into the soles of his feet. There were a lot worse things in this world than g-forces ... The main thing was to keep ahead of those blue bolts in the feet!... He started pushing the buttons and throwing the switches like the greatest electric Wurlitzer organist who ever lived...
...archetype for modern airlinese ("We've got a little ol' red light up here on the control panel that's tryin' to tell us that the landin' gears're not... uh ... lockin' into position"). He is also the book's main foil, a member of a vanishing breed of hot-rock pilot in an age of increasingly automated flight...
...main thing is that this is a large organization, and any large organization, is going to encounter some problems in finding out how it should run," said Jim Cornell, CFA public information director. "You've got two big bureaucratic organizations--Harvard and the Smithsonian--with a lot of bureaucratic rules that sometimes don't mesh...