Word: outposts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With the completion of the Discovery mission, NASA will doubtless argue that the shuttle is of crucial importance in building the proposed space station scheduled for the mid-1990s. Just last week the U.S. signed an agreement with eleven Western nations to undertake jointly the construction of the manned | outpost, which would require 20 shuttle flights. Both presidential candidates support the ambitious plans for the station. But neither has yet explained how he would justify its estimated $30 billion cost or said precisely how he thinks it should be used...
Nomura tries to enter foreign markets quietly, a strategy called dochakuka, or "blending into the landscape." Explains Hitoshi Tonomura, co-chairman of Nomura's London-based European subsidiary: "We don't want to become an ) outpost of our Tokyo head office. We are here to become European." The most important tenet of this philosophy is that Nomura hires locally: only 300 of its 2,000 overseas employees are Japanese...
...first the incursion was uneventful. Some 1,000 Israeli soldiers crossed into Southern Lebanon last week, rounding up villagers for interrogation and warning others not to help terrorists. The soldiers saw little action until they came to the heavily fortified village of Maydun, an outpost of the Shi'ite Muslim fundamentalist group Hizballah, or Party of God. Unleashing 1,000 rounds of artillery, the troops stormed the town at dawn and fought a house-to-house battle against the Islamic defenders. When the siege ended seven hours later, the Israelis counted 40 Shi'ites and three of their own dead...
...Stinger missiles, the U.S.-made, heat-seeking, antiaircraft weapons used by the mujahedin, Afghanistan's resistance. On the airport perimeter, sunburned Soviet soldiers stood around a formidable new stone-and-cement guard post topped by a hammer-and-sickle flag. Their thoughts were turning toward withdrawal from their flinty outpost. "Who wouldn't like to go home?" asked Victor Avershin, a blond, 19-year-old private. "Everybody wants to go home...
Iowans have a solidity and a temperance that make the state seem like an outpost of Lake Wobegon. The Hawkeye State first embraced Prohibition in 1882, and the lemonade legacy remains: Iowans drink less liquor per capita than the residents of any state save West Virginia, where illegal moonshine is not counted in the standings. Des Moines is the Jell-O-eating capital of the nation. Cakes are still made from scratch: consumers buy ingredients like baking chocolate at roughly double the national norm...