Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...techniques, achieving a balance between the personal relations of the principals and their place within the larger historical upheaval. In one excellent scene, Schanberg tries to question an American official in a warehouse filled with Coca-Cola. Suddenly a mortar barrage blasts the warehouse of cans into gooey scrap, providing the answers Schanberg needed and a symbol of the tenuousness of the Western presence in Indochina...
...response to news coverage of Godoy's withdrawal is any indication, they are not likely to relax their tight control over the country once they are elected. The story was so heavily censored in the country's leading opposition daily, La Prensa, that the publisher decided to scrap that day's edition...
WALTER MONDALE would provide a salutary antidote to the ideology-in-a-vacuum which has characterized Reagan's foreign policy. No one need challenge this old Minnesotan's commitment to a sound defense, which would hardly be emasculated by the Defense Department cuts he proposes. Mondale wants only to scrap the weapons system-like the MN missile-which have no value either strategically or as bargaining chips in arms negotiations with the Soviets. More important, though, Mondale's vigorous scrutiny of the Pentagon budget would help bring an end to the insidious culture of procurement that has flourished under...
...must determine where the $1 billion in savings will come from. Although each minister is expected to recommend trims in his own department, some officials contend that fiscal realities leave them little flexibility. Education Minister Yitzhak Navon, for example, faces a 12½% budget cut and may have to scrap benefits like free high school education...
...week traipse through the Alps is nothing short of glowing (not entirely surprising coming from an author who is known to write paeans to the Rockies). If any nation had been planning to violate Swiss neutrality, reading La Place de la Concorde Suisse would be enough to make them scrap their battle plans and figure out another way to get through central Europe. Every bridge and railway track and alpine tunnel is mined and ready to blow up whenever needed. The army is scheduled to go into full mobilization in 48 hours. In practice, it rarely taker half that long...