Word: reliant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue is of utmost importance to the U.S. armed forces. Virtually all American warplanes use radar, and many costly weapons systems, from the Navy's Aegis system to the Army's Patriot missile, are heavily reliant on the technology. By one estimate, about a quarter of U.S. military investment is radar related. If heavy use of radar becomes questionable, the Pentagon will have to rethink its whole strategy and allocation of resources...
Such a drive, Monrad says, would be "an effortto make these places self-reliant...
...citizens of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania love to watch grainy black- and-white documentary films of what it was like 50 years ago, before their lands were seized by Stalin, invaded by Hitler, then colonized by the Kremlin. They remember themselves as having been self-reliant yet outward looking. These are among the virtues that Gorbachev is now preaching for the Soviet Union as a whole. He is a Westernizer, in the tradition of an enlightened but ultimately frustrated school of 19th century Russian reformers. The Baltics are already the most Westernized of the 15 Soviet republics, and they...
...brightest beacon for East bloc countries as they emerge blinking from the long shadow of Soviet suzerainty. Walesa's mission also underscored a larger truth. In ways large and small, Western Europe is becoming a player in its own right on the world stage, increasingly less reliant on the U.S. and less cowed by the Soviet Union at the same time as it evolves into a more unified community. Never again will Washington be able to take Western Europe and its allegiance for granted. "We have grown up and have stronger muscles," says Italian journalist Ludina Barzini. "It's going...
...None of the deans have ever been to one of our board meetings. None of the deans have ever had any conversations with me," said Wallace. "Everything they said in the letter was obviously reliant on second-hand information...