Word: shakedowns
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...alliance remained only in its shakedown stage, and many of its parts still seemed decorative. As of late last week, U.S. forces made up more than 60% of the coalition's 675,000 active personnel, among them deployments ranging from 36,000 crack Egyptian infantrymen down to some Afghan mujahedin guerrillas and 150 troops from Honduras. What the smaller land contingents -- as well as the token few warships sent by countries like Australia, Spain and Greece -- could accomplish that the alliance's core partners could not remained unanswered by the Pentagon. Even such a muscular U.S. ally as Italy, moreover...
...Arbatov, the noted Americanologist and former Gorbachev adviser. He warned that opponents of perestroika "have tried to exploit natural discontent and worry to turn the clock back. They are trying to blackmail our parliament, politicians and even the President." If so, the principal blackmail victim was proving no mean shakedown artist himself...
...Mydland's work provides some interesting counterpoint to the more traditional Dead songs contributed by Garcia and Weir, though some of his offerings (e.g. "Just a Little Light") come across as over-synthesized, excessively popularized tracks that sound like out-takes from the Go to Heaven or Shakedown Street sessions...
...astronauts had said all along they weretreating the mission as a test mission--a"shakedown flight," in the words of Covey--andthey quickly ran into first-flight problems. Awater evaporator that provides cooling to the shipduring the climb to space and return to Earth waspartly clogged with ice. And a device thatprovides electrial power to move an orbitalsteering engine was not working...
JOHN HIATT: BRING THE FAMILY (A&M). A musical shakedown artist: tunes like Lipstick Sunset can lay bare any emotion by the end of the first verse...