Word: naval
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...started last December with a snowball fight; by last week it had blown into multiple investigations into how women and plebes are treated at the U.S. Naval Academy. After Midshipman Gwen Dreyer hit a male student in the face with a well-aimed snowball, he and some buddies retaliated by handcuffing her to a urinal and photographing her in that humiliating situation. No one, including Dreyer, reported the incident, but when her father complained, Dreyer, who had previously talked of enrolling at Caltech, quit the academy...
Before long, MacCready followed his models into the sky, taking flying lessons and soloing at 16. He studied mechanical engineering at Yale, enrolled in the Navy during World War II and took fighter-pilot training at the Pensacola Naval Air Station. Returning to Yale, he switched his major to physics and with a few friends bought an Army surplus glider. Soon he was totally absorbed in soaring, which he continued while earning his master's & degree in physics and a doctorate in aeronautics at California Institute of Technology...
...past decade. Congressional watchdogs had been complaining for three years about reports that CCC credits were not carefully supervised. And the Reagan and Bush administrations consistently turned a blind eye to Iraq's pursuit of missiles and chemical weapons. Says W. Seth Carus, a missile-proliferation expert at the Naval War College Foundation: "The U.S. clearly decided to help Iraq in its fight with Iran...
...This should not be read as naval policy," Carney said. "This action should not be seen as the course of action the Navy will take in the future...
This is an "only" movie. It does nothing important, like contributing to racial harmony or revealing decade-old Soviet naval secrets. It declines to offer the machine-tooled warmth of your standard screen romance. It won't even keep the kids occupied on a Saturday afternoon. Miami Blues, a pint-size character comedy with a body count, is only a terrific picture...