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...speaker is a retired furniture dealer, not a preacher or philosopher. As chairman of the Kossuth County Hospital in Algona, Iowa, he is welcoming some 700 townspeople to a cookie-and-punch open house at the just-completed John and Agnes Dreesman Memorial Addition...
...Proud as punch of the Patriot? Amazed at the quiet swish and lethal accuracy of the Tomahawk? Awed by the Apache helicopter and its tank-killing Hellfire missile? So, too, are the U.S. military services, the Bush Administration, the Congress -- and a host of defense contractors eager to turn the war-born popularity of their fearsome weapons into a new splurge of arms spending and big profits. Such is the congressional passion for these high-tech marvels that a new "war dividend" of great value to many people -- but decidedly not to the beleaguered American taxpayer -- is being doled...
...simply speak with one another -- all had been pointed up as potentially fatal pitfalls facing such an ungainly coalition. Yet the so-called AirLand strategy, adopted in the 1980s by NATO as a counter to a Soviet invasion of Western Europe, proved to be more than a knockout military punch. Because NATO relies on a central command of joint forces, the doctrine managed surprisingly well to integrate the polyglot gulf alliance...
...these to soak enemy troops thoroughly, and once the blasting started, allied bombers would furiously attack the culprits. "Once they're out in the open," says an American pilot, "they're dead meat." The Iraqis might also load mines with chemicals, but these would deliver an isolated punch...
...functions best as dance music or as the soundtrack to a video, Sondheim's works reward close listening. The rhymes are breathtaking. Whereas most lyricists are content with two words, Sondheim often rhymes three, four or, in "Two Fairy Tales," 15 words. He also plays with consonance, matching pinch, punch, pauch, pouch and pension...