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Thus Israeli commanders are working to undo the complacency that has taken root in the military over years of relative calm. First, Defense Minister Mordechai wants to restock military stores, such as ammunition, spare weapons and parts, which have fallen, he says, to "irrational" levels. The military is asking that its $9.5 billion annual budget be topped off with an additional $1 billion to finance further purchases of materiel and increased training of the troops...
America needs to restock its repertoire of folklore and self-images and archetypes. The 1992 presidential campaign has made its noisy way across a nation that has lost many of its defining ideas about itself. The cold war's end gave Americans only a kind of abstract triumph -- and left a void. The collapse of communism and the Soviet empire suddenly removed the dark moral counterweight by which Americans measured their own virtue. Chronic recession, the rise of Japanese and European economic competitors, the vast inflow of immigrants from non-European sources (strangers to the older American tradition), the shrinking...
...most students did not seem satisfied withtalk of future hiring plans. "If disgusts me thatthe only way to get minorities and women here isto restock the number of white men," said onestudent at the forum...
...stops at this or That great Virginian's house were peripheral. More essential to my visit were the stops at the gift shops and restaurants where I could restock and expand my collection of colonial paraphernalia...
Reports of Borek's service record at MIT are varied. George E. Hosker, who manages an MIT dormitory which Borek services, said the condom service frequently neglects to restock the dispensers...