Word: protection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sundquist said the Reagan administration hasn't done enough to protect the environment or improve education. "For the past eight years, we had other problems that had to be solved," he said, adding that a Bush administration would tackle these problems and "do it without raising taxes...
Enter technology, in the form of the Aegis system. It is designed to enable a single vessel to protect an entire Navy battle group from all sorts of attack. The Vincennes is one of eleven U.S. cruisers equipped with the system, and the first to be deployed in the Persian Gulf. Phased-array radars constantly sweep the skies over a vast swatch of ocean. They can track more than 100 aircraft, surface ships, submarines, missiles and torpedoes simultaneously. All show up as white symbols on one of four blue screens; each symbol is in a particular shape, identifying the object...
...have been done to prevent the injury. Throughout the trial, Lipsig kept on his desk a mysterious brown bag that tantalized the jurors. Not until his final argument did he open the bag to dramatically take from it a paper cup. "This is what they could have done to protect my client," he announced. He won the case. Ever since, chastened stadium concessionaires nationwide have sold beverages in paper cups...
...took this action to defend my ship and my crew." The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral William Crowe Jr., used a similar yes-but formulation in saying, "We deeply regret the loss of life here, but that commanding officer had a very heavy obligation to protect his ships, his people...
...vice president, who said he was delivering "the free world's case," called the destruction of the airliner a "terrible human tragedy" but said the United States has a "legal right" to protect Persian Gulf shipping lanes...