Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether the Navy will receive enough money to maintain its 13 carriers and expand the fleet to the nearly 600 ships that Holloway feels will be needed at the end of the century is a question that will be heatedly debated by Congress in the weeks ahead. To reach the Navy's goal would require spending about $5 billion extra annually. Even bringing the fleet up to the more modest level of 500 ships, which the Administration believes should be sufficient, would cost about $500 million a year more than Carter has requested...
...shipbuilding plan, submitted in late March, gives the Navy 70 new ships, costing $32 billion, through fiscal 1983. This is only half of what the service says it needs. But, says Secretary Brown, "a larger shipbuilding program would jeopardize our current readiness by diverting the funds we need to maintain and operate the ships we already have...
...naval base (at Murmansk) and important missile installations. The high-flying (35,000 ft.) Korean 707 should have been spotted by Soviet radar when it was as many as 500 miles offshore. Yet it not only flew unchallenged through the 200-mile-wide air defense zone that the Soviets maintain off their shores, but charged along for at least 18 minutes over Russian territory before fighters intercepted...
...would function peaceably and happily with the minimum of punitive sanctions. It took a long time to discover that democratic government was, if not perfect, the system of rule that best balanced the claim of the citizen to be free and happy and the need for the state to maintain order. Essentially, democracy depends not on law and the law-enforcing arm of the state but on the willingness of citizens to accept an unwritten contract, a contract between the rational and the atavistic in themselves. When democratic order has to depend on police repression of the antisocial aggressive, then...
...mood-change by keeping the tone as lighthearted as possible and by stressing funny one-liners ("his pockets were full of persuasive arguments," is offered as an explanation for human fickleness). But frequently, the buffoonery seems to go against the playwright's intent. In addition, the effort to maintain a certain amount of continuity between acts requires a rather confusing set of blood-ties between characters; at times it would be helpful if the Loeb provided a geneology of the sort that comes tucked inside long Russian novels...