Word: poseidons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...around the world, rethinking basic military strategy and the weapons systems needed to carry it out. The $300 billion budget for fiscal 1989, now in Senate-House conference, gives only a mild taste of what is ahead. To get within those limits, Carlucci will, among other things, retire a Poseidon ballistic-missile submarine, two Air Force wings (total: 144 planes) and 620 Army helicopters, and scale back the proposed number of men and women in uniform by 46,000, leaving a total of 2,138,000. Some 20,000 projected civilian employees will also be dropped. Though Congress...
...Poseidon; 584 pages...
...Elis were closing in and summoning Poseidon and the other gods of Ingalls to work some of their familiar 10-year-old magic...
...total of 1,320 strategic nuclear delivery systems. If the number of bombers carrying cruises passes 130, the U.S. is obliged to make a corresponding reduction in another area of its nuclear arsenal. The White House decision to field the bomber and not scrap a missile-carrying Poseidon submarine to keep within SALT II bounds amounted to the first acknowledged violation of a major arms accord by a superpower...
Near-amateur enthusiasts can provide valuable books on aspects of food dearest to their hearts and palates. Two cases in point: Linda Merinoff's The Glorious Noodle -- A Culinary Tour Around the World (Poseidon; $16.95) and Margaret Leibenstein's The Edible Mushroom -- A Gourmet Cook's Guide (Fawcett Columbine; $14.95). Merinoff, a journalist and caterer, is obviously beguiled by all things pasta -- Italian, Greek, Hungarian, Israeli, African, Alsatian or Asian. Her work brims with tempting dumplings, noodles in mild and spicy sauces, one-dish soups and stews bolstered with some form of wheat-, bean- or rice-flour noodles. Lore...