Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Chips Are Down. Citing McNamara's rejection of the recommendations in two aircraft contracts-the TFX and the V/STOL-Anderson said that "military experience builds an appreciation of the truth that slight margins make big differences when the chips are down. Those who fought in the Pacific know what the narrow margin of operational superiority in the Japanese Zero fighter cost in American lives. I have had two nephews-both Navy pilots-who have been lost in peacetime in naval aircraft. We feel emotionally aroused as well as dispassionately concerned if the recommendations of the uniformed chiefs...
...Netherlands and Sweden, tied with 153 deaths per 10,000 births. Next come Norway, Finland, Australia, Denmark, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. It was Ireland that nudged the U.S. out of the top ten last year, by moving up from 13th place. To some slight extent, the U.S. infant-death rate reflects modern medicine's ability to maintain pregnancies and deliver babies in cases that, years ago, would have ended in spontaneous abortions ("miscarriages") or stillbirths, and would not have counted in the statistics...
...complain of if military opinions on the treaty needed greater attention and respect, but the military view has already received a disproportionate airing. It would be nothing to complain of if many senators did not already have good reason to feel that the armed forces operate under very slight Congressional restraint and under only a little more from the Administration...
...important questions which the treaty raises. Narrowing the debate principally to strategy and weaponry forces both sides to parrot the data and analyses of outside agencies and individuals. Both sides surrendered some of their independence when they act as a clearing house for the views of others. Proponents slight the treaty's importance by permitting opinionated experts to inflate minor uncertainties into forboding obsessions. In the process, the proponents neglect to examine the area in which they are best qualified, the political consequences of the treaty...
Once the noose is unobtrusively slipped about his neck, reel out and let him run. A slight tug at various points during the romance can be used as a check, but if you tug too often, he will catch on and cut loose...