Word: rebuilding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...takes 10 years (1980-90) to rebuild New York City's subway into the safest, fastest, cleanest and most modern in the world. Labor, management, skills, materials, necessity, money from Washington's printing presses are right now available. This giant project triggers rebuilding urban America. Vastly increases employment as well as revenues for government and private industry. The MX missile for 1980-90 at 50 to 100 billion dollars destroys Nevada-Utah and threatens human survival. Rebuilding NYC subway blesses humankind. Henry Ratliff...
...Shatt al Arab estuary. The Iraqis were also proceeding toward one of their key tactical goals: cutting off most of the supply of oil from Khuzistan to Iran's heartland by severing pipelines and inflicting heavy damage on the huge refinery at Abadan, which will take years to rebuild. As part of this strategy, the Iraqis have repeatedly shelled Dezful, nexus for most of the oil pipelines running northward from Khuzistan. The Tehran government has already been forced to ration gasoline and heating oil, and reserves of jet fuel are dwindling...
...conscience tells me to do. The right thing to do. And pray that by the next election others will accept my philosophy and see that the two political systems of today just don't have the answers--they don't have the absolutes that I think we need to rebuild this broken foundation...
When he speaks of an ideal America, it is with a strange mix of optimism and fear. His eyes shine from behind gold-rimmed glasses as he talks of the spirit and determination of the Pilgrims: "I say we can rebuild this nation into a nation that's great, that's a leader. The Pilgrims built it from nothing--we certainly have a lot more to build on than they had." A minute later, we are speaking about Ninevah and Tyre, Sodom and Gomorrah: "If we do not legislate morality, we are going to end up with worse chaos than...
...attended East Germany's air academy. He may have graduated with an economics degree from Pyongyang's Kim II Sung University about 1965. In the early 1970s, Japanese visitors were told that he was involved in the "three-revolution" movement in North Korea, an attempt to rebuild the country ideologically, technologically and culturally. After 1977, he disappeared from even the private conversations of Pyongyang officials. Speculation in Seoul and Tokyo had it that the young Kim had been badly injured in a traffic incident, perhaps during an attempt on his life...