Word: means
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't find it credible that the U.S. would come to their defense < with nuclear strikes if only Europe were in danger of being overrun in a conventional war. Putting the nuclear capability to sea would not only be returning toward the discredited massive-retaliation doctrine, it would also mean that most if not all of the capability would be in the hands of the U.S. and Britain, which would probably cause the continental nations to again wonder if their allies would use these weapons if it became necessary. Also, the Soviets have a superior air-defense capability...
...priced at $79,900, down 15% in two years. Last year more people moved out of the area than moved in for the first time since the Depression years of the 1930s. In that climate, voters bought the promises of Romer and Pena that a new airport would mean jobs and prosperity. "What you heard today from the voters was the sound of Denver taking off!" shouted Pena on election night. Branding such talk a "psychological aphrodisiac," retired Rear Admiral Richard Young, who led the opposition, declared, "Somehow, by voting for the airport, there is the feeling everybody is going...
...fool around with Ford, or Indy. In the film's prologue, young Jones is chased and chastened by a band of scavengers. The gang's leader tells Indy, "You lost today, kid. But that doesn't mean you have to like it." Real-life flashback: when Ford was about young Indy's age, he entered a junior high school where, he recalls, "the favorite recess activity was to take me to the edge of a sharply sloping parking lot, throw me off, wait for me to struggle back to the top, then throw me off again. The entire school would...
...recipe is this: Gorbachev will try and will fail and will be replaced," Goldman said. "I don't mean that personally...
...active stance. We get things done. And though we are open to those seeking information, we have adopted a policy similar to that of the Harvard academic community: the knowledge is here for your consumption, but we will not spoon-feed it to you. Spending our time proselytizing would mean one less Black child that we got off the streets and into a tutoring program: one less donation for our annual scholarship; one less thing we could do for our community. It is not that we have anything against intellectualizing the problems of today, as Professor Kilson has done...