Word: mavericks
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...running for blacks or whites or the Democratic Party or the Republican Party or any political organization. I'm running for Chicago." In fact, she seems to be running for her political life. Her imperious and erratic performance during four years as mayor so alienated machine and maverick Democrats alike that there is little possibility she will be nominated for any other office...
...evasion-the ideas-seem to start in California and spread elsewhere, just as fads start out here," says Ron Saranow, chief of the IRS Criminal Investigations Division for the region. One of the local figures who most irritate California tax authorities is Armen Condo, a self-styled "maverick minister" who heads an organization called Your Heritage Protection Association, based in Orange County. With a dues-paying flock of 15,000, Condo took in an estimated $2 million in three years while preaching an unusual gospel: since the U.S. dollar cannot be redeemed in gold or silver, it is therefore corrupt...
...defense, the same outlay would buy 30 Oerlikon 35-mm guns for every DIVAD, the new and troubled computer-guided artillery. For antitank warfare, 30 times as many 106-mm recoilless rifles could be bought as TOW missiles. A comparison of antitank ammunition shows that the unproven Maverick, an air-to-ground missile with heat-seeking sensors, is 75 times as expensive as reliable 30-mm shells...
...weapon is handled by the same Pentagon brass and bureaucrats who are responsible for its research and development and who are likely to be the most anxious to see that it is funded and produced. This leads to field-testing standards that bear little resemblance to combat. The Maverick antitank missile, for example, is being tested by pilots who know both the terrain and target locations ahead of time. The expensive ($1 billion apiece) Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers equipped with the AEGIS air-defense system have never been pitted in simulated combat situations against low-flying missiles like...
...combined role of mystery man and maverick was not one that Chuck Spinney sought, or especially welcomed. Says Defense Analyst Pierre Sprey, whose reform theories have influenced Spinney's thinking: "He is an involuntary iconoclast." Spinney protests that he is no enemy of military spending; he just wants the nation to get value for its dollar. Says he: "My view is that our country has to be strong and that we have to have the military assets to ensure that strength." He adds a bit plaintively: "People have the idea that I'm out to find things wrong...