Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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White House staffers privately conceded that Reagan had been off form. In fact, it was perhaps the worst public performance of his presidency. Aides were quick with excuses. Reagan was a little tired, they said, because the White House air conditioning had not worked well the night before. The air indoors was dry, and that was why his throat was raspy. His briefing book on foreign policy had been delivered later than his book on domestic issues. In posing practice questions over lunch in the Cabinet Room that day, his advisers "did not do all we could have done...
...have eased manpower problems. Correspondent Ed Bradley criticized plans to spend $17 billion in 1982 on the four-service Rapid Deployment Force "when all they needed to do was send in the Marines." Matters are not quite that simple: Marine units are indeed organized and trained for quick assaults, but Army units that might be assigned to the R.D.F. would have more staying power for a long campaign because of their heavy equipment...
...what is called geosynchronous orbit. At that distance, satellites remain fixed over one spot on the ground, permanently in line of sight of antennas. The U.S. shuttle can reach a maximum altitude of only 690 miles, and additional boosters will be needed to loft payloads higher. Europeans were quick to make much of la différence. NASA, en garde...
...longer the invincible titans of air transport, major trunk carriers like Pan American, United, Braniff and TWA are now fighting off brutal competition from hosts of new airlines, some with only a few planes and a quick-thinking team of marketing men. Their business strategy: a sort of fast-food style of jam-'em-in, fly-'em-off air service. The upstarts have been spawned in large part by the airline deregulation drive that began during Gerald Ford's presidency and is likely to be accelerated by the Reagan Administration...
Last week eleven Krome Avenue North residents were herded through a quick immigration hearing in Miami, then put on a jet back to Port-au-Prince. They were the first to be sent home under a new U.S. policy of deporting all Haitians who have arrived illegally since mid-May. (Last year more than 20,000 entered the U.S. legitimately.) Seventy-six more Haitians have been found similarly unacceptable and ordered to leave, but await judicial review of their cases, which will begin this week. If the Immigration and Naturalization Service has its way-as a Cabinet task force will...