Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each summer of his childhood, George Bush went with his family to a sprawling shingle-and-stone cottage in Kennebunkport, Me., joined by assorted cousins and friends who could always find a spare bedroom, an extra tennis racquet. Days were crammed with sailing and tennis at the River Club, fierce games of backgammon and Scrabble at night. After Prescott Bush Sr., the imposing (6 ft. 4 in.) patriarch, arrived by sleeper car from Manhattan on the weekends, he would recruit a vocal quartet from the assembled company for after-dinner harmonizing. Family Friend Bill Truesdale describes those summers...
Most critics agree with Gordon Adams, director of the Washington-based Defense Budget Project, that these weapons probably can be bought "only at the price of a drastic cut in the size of the U.S. armed forces or a debilitating slash in spending for readiness" (training, ammunition, spare parts). The whole contretemps raises a harrowing but unavoidable question: Can the U.S. afford to pay for the defense it needs -- and just how much does it need anyway? In his best-selling book, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Historian Paul Kennedy points out that such dominant nations...
...insists that he will not cut deeply into the operations-and-maintenance account, which pays for such items as training, ammunition and spare parts and has been a favorite target for past budget cutters. He is also determined to avoid "stretch-outs," the common practice of maintaining orders for tanks, say, or fighter planes but buying fewer each year than originally planned. Stretch-outs often cause production to fall below economic rates, so that the Pentagon ultimately pays more for each tank, plane or ship...
...higher the posts, the more they are male dominated. Top openings are regularly reserved for active members of the Communist Party, an avocation that requires more time than most women can spare. Even within the party, women rarely rise far. In 1986 Alexandra Biryukova became the first woman in 25 years to be elevated to the Secretariat of the Central Committee. Concedes Pokhova: "We have too few women at the decision-making level...
...couple of weeks later, I got a postcard from you-know-who thanking me profusely for taking the time to respond to her letter. She wrote that now that her older children had grown up and moved away, there was a spare room in the house. "Anytime you happen to be in Colorado and need a place to stay...