Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, most students say that social life comes second to academics. "They [his classmates] don't do enough to relax, that's for damn sure. They're all sick--the clean cut ones. I recommend valium for 90 percent of the school," says Arthur C Epker, a second-year student...
Such problems, however, do not detract from the main lessons to be learned from To Win a Nuclear War. First, there are always those in the upper echelons of the American government and military who, under certain circumstances, will recommend a pre-emptive strike against the Soviet Union. There will always be some who belive, as does Richard Pipes, that "there is no alternative to war with the Soviet Union if the Russians do not abondon communism...
Once again, Reagan's advisers deserve the principle blame for this public relations fiasco. Those advisers not directly involved in the scandal were too spineless or misguided to recommend these drastic but necessary measures to the President. And those advisers actually involved in the arms deal used Reagan's reluctance to fire an employee to their advantage...
...between engineers at Morton Thiokol, makers of the shuttle's solid rocket boosters, and NASA officials. Thiokol's engineers spent almost an hour explaining why they believed that cold temperatures at Cape Canaveral would impair the performance of their now infamous O-rings. The Thiokol engineers voted unanimously to recommend against launching...
...Tower commission, originally appointed by Reagan to recommend changes in the structure and operations of the NSC, has turned into a kind of runaway grand jury conducting a far-reaching investigation of the whole Iran arms- contra funds scandal. It is the only investigative body that has questioned the President, who last week met with its three members for the second time, in a 70-minute session. The White House is bracing itself for what Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater predicted will be a "critical and tough" report. Among other things, the commission is believed to have found deep CIA involvement...