Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...present experience is telling us that if we continue to use the Shuttle Landing Facility [at Kennedy] for end-of-mission landings, sooner or later we will have an accident due to the single runway, its condition ... the unpredictable ... weather, component failures including the flight crew, or, more likely, a combination of the above factors," Young wrote...
...Congress that the Chiefs resolve differences by "log rolling and back scratching." Retired Army General David Jones, a former Chairman of the JCS, has stated, "The corporate advice provided by the JCS is not crisp, timely, very useful or very influential." At budget-writing time, the Joint Chiefs usually present a wish list to the Secretary of Defense and fight for every dime. More often than not, say critics, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger's response has been to give each service pretty much what it wants...
Misty Lima, with its quaint colonial architecture and pleasant neighborhoods, is being squeezed by invading slums. Running along a seaside road, a jogger sees servants and municipal workers dumping garbage on the cliffs. In his latest novel, Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa supersedes this real present with a likely future. In the provinces, government forces supported by U.S. Marines battle insurgents backed by the Soviet Union, Cuba and Bolivia. But it is the past that is central to the book. Its narrator is a Vargas Llosa-like writer in search of information for a novel about his former Marxist classmate...
...preparation for lying, for conjuring a fiction. Such modernist hugger-mugger has great potential for tedium. But Vargas Llosa's lucid intellect and technical gifts allow him to toy with uncertainty and shuffle time with deceptive ease. A good deal of Peru's mournful history and wretched present are economically conveyed. Leaving the Museum of the Inquisition, the narrator is confronted by a score of beggars. "They constitute a sort of grotesque royal court of tatters, grime, and scabs," he observes. "As soon as they see me, they stretch out their black-nailed hands and beg. Violence behind...
...since the 1980 census showed only 83 blacks among Dearborn's 90,660 residents. The city's lily-white makeup was maintained by Mayor Orville Hubbard, a chest-thumping racist who ruled Dearborn's city hall from 1942 to 1978. Although Hubbard died in 1982, his legacy was hauntingly present last week as civil rights activists expanded a boycott of local stores to protest efforts to bar nonresidents from most of Dearborn's 39 parks...