Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...British media magnate has shown some rather peculiar proclivities as a publisher. His Pergamon Press, soon to be sold to a Dutch firm, produced a World Leaders series that seemed to specialize in official or groveling accounts of dictators. All have since been discredited and relegated to history's scrap heap. Among the titles...
...just that American M1A1 tanks made scrap metal out of Soviet T- 72s, which they did, or that Iraqi pilots of top-of-the-line MiG-29s were unwilling even to engage U.S. planes, which they were. Worse, from the Soviet and Chinese points of view, is the fact that they have no counterparts to the Western weapons that won the war in its first few days -- Stealth fighter- bombers, precision-guided munitions, electronic warfare. Hardest of all for the Soviet Union and China to accept is the near certainty that neither will be able to catch up with...
Proksch, 56, the owner of Demel, the famous Vienna pastry shop, had been accused of engineering a bold scheme in which he loaded the 12,000-ton Panama- registered Lucona with scrap metal, insured the cargo for $18.5 million as "nuclear processing equipment," then had the ship blown up after it set sail from Italy. Six people died when the vessel sank off the Maldive Islands in January...
...fraud was uncovered when a high-tech deep-sea search found the scrap metal and concluded that the Lucona had been deliberately scuttled. Two former government ministers were forced to resign after being accused of involvement in the scandal. Proksch plans to appeal...
...extravaganza, sounds a lot like Vivien Leigh. And her lover and frequent co-star, the great Shakespearean actor Sir Robert Vane, would need no letter of introduction to Laurence Olivier. Do we recognize bits of the brassy showman Billy Rose? Is that lovable, tormented, red-haired American comedian a scrap of Danny Kaye? Yoo-hoo, Sir Ralph...