Word: minding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis has long been advocating greater emphasis on conventional weapons. When the U.S. Navy sailed into harm's way in the Persian Gulf, Dukakis was driving to Washington's airport with Georgetown's Albright, a close adviser. "He said it was mind-boggling that the U.S. didn't have any minesweepers available," she recalls. "He was also stunned by the horror stories he heard about the lack of ammunition and spare parts...
...have Harpoon antiship missiles and could have fired them; other experts doubt it. In any case, say some pilots, an F-14 trying to sink the Vincennes would probably have been flying much faster and much lower than the plane the Aegis system spotted. "No pilot in his right mind would attack a ship that way," one American F-14 pilot told the Washington Post...
...Allan Bloom ((author of The Closing of the American Mind)) is a brilliant man, very good for higher education. But much too despairing. He doesn't see the happiness and spontaneity of American life. I hate that prissy crap where he's anti-rock 'n' roll...
...good day. Just as I finished a second cup of coffee, an editor called me, requesting some fixes on a story. As we discussed the changes, my mind began to transmogrify. His familiar visage took on the horrible features of Tezcatlipoca, Mexico's evil magician-god with blazing eyes and slobbering tongue. If one encounters this dreadful apparition, legend has it, one's only hope is to thrust a hand into the god's bloody chest cavity and seize its palpitating heart...
Central to the American character is a litigious mind-set that cannot acknowledge blame without worrying about legal liability. Before the passengers on Flight 655 were even buried, Washington policymakers were locked in a distracting wrangle over whether to pay damages. The questionable notion that some form of monetary compensation to the victims' families could assuage Iran's grief was advanced by House Speaker Jim Wright and Republican Senator John Warner. The Administration has agreed to study the possibility of such payments, and the President is leaning strongly in favor of them. The primary obstacle appears to be political...