Word: merely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Heading straight for the cockpit is a habit that Jones acquired during his 37 years in the Air Force. But he is no mere hot pilot. Cool, meticulous, low-key and dogged, Jones typifies the new breed of military managers. Explains a senior Pentagon aide: "The era is over of flamboyant combat heroes rising to the top of the military...
...guerrillas. Staggering under severe economic pressures, these countries have been urging their Patriotic Front wards to negotiate a settlement of the costly seven-year war. Frontline leaders were shocked by Carrington's strong-handed tactics and feared that the success of the talks was being "jeopardized" by a mere technicality. Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, a key sponsor of the Lancaster House talks, invited the other front-line Presidents to an emergency summit at Dares Salaam to seek a way out of the apparent impasse. The meeting fully supported the guerrillas on the land question and made a conciliatory plea...
Behind Carrington's bold handling of the crisis lies a determination on the part of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Tory government to rid itself of the "Rhodesian cross" as swiftly as possible. The British policy shift involves more than a mere change of government from Labor to Tory. Perceptively reading the mood of the Commonwealth and front-line states, Carrington had first to dissuade Thatcher from a premature recognition of the Muzorewa government...
...last hope for some real excitement, but only modest suspense is generated by the encounter. Like everything else in this movie, it is underplayed and underwritten. Noel Black, who once did a curiously perverse little movie called Pretty Poison, is capable of stronger work, and so are these performers. Mere agreeability is just not enough to sustain a movie that has crime as well as comedy on its mind...
Coming down the final hill and toward the straight-away that crosses the finish line. Wehrwein and Murphy battled for first place. The Eli emerged the winner, beating out Murphy by a mere two seconds...