Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early 1970s, with more than 300,000 U.S. troops in Viet Nam, the Nixon Doctrine enabled Washington to speed up sales and gifts of weapons to important allies, without also sending troops. Iran was one of the chief beneficiaries, receiving $14 billion worth of military goods between 1972 and 1978. The Carter Administration continued the policy of supplying arms to "regional influentials," including Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Turkey has the largest standing army of any NATO country apart from...
Since the series ended, Captain (now Admiral) Kirk has been kicked upstairs to dull desk duty, Mr. Spock has settled on his native Vulcan, and "Bones" McCoy has become a bearded country doctor. The Enterprise itself is in drydock. Suddenly a Starfleet monitoring station spots an immense alien "force" speeding toward earth at "warp seven" speed, making nasty noises and devouring spaceships like popcorn. Out of drydock comes the Enterprise, and Kirk is returned to its command...
Nonetheless, the speed with which the Administration accepted the agreement contributed to doubts, even among supporters of normalization, about whether the U.S. got the best of the bargain. Said Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers, fresh from spending two weeks in mainland China: "It made me wonder how much the President left on the negotiating table." Probably nothing, in the view of several Asian scholars. "We could have held out," said Harvard's Benjamin Schwartz, "but I doubt that China would ever openly say that it was going to assure the security of Taiwan...
Emphasizing a posture of beleaguered defiance, Jerusalem halted a military equipment pullback that had been intended to help speed the Sinai withdrawal that is to begin after a treaty is signed. In response to a series of terrorist bombings, Israeli planes attacked Palestinian camps in Lebanon for the first time since before the September session at Camp David. As Florida Democrat Richard Stone, head of the Senate Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, put it, the Israelis appeared to have "drawn the wagons into a circle...
...speed of the transition surprised the musical world and started speculation that Rudel had quarreled with City Opera's board of directors. The company has had some sour notes in recent years. A deep financial crisis?now successfully surmounted?threatened at one point to close the house. Performances have often been slipshod lately, the casting haphazard. Rudel, although tireless, has been away from the house more and more on conducting engagements; he has accepted the directorship of the Buffalo Philharmonic beginning next fall...