Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion in cuts to civilian officials at the Pentagon had already been counted in Stockman's freeze on federal salaries. Weinberger, a cagey operator, warns that deeper trims could wreck arms control by convincing the Soviets that they need not bother to bargain, since Congress will reduce U.S. military strength for them...
...Cambodian people remain caught in a complex web of ages-old feuding and geopolitical intrigue. Inside the country, the fighting is at a standstill, analysts believe, as the leading non-communist group, the Khmer People's National Liberation Front (now at about 15,000 guerrillas) gains in strength, while the reviled Khmer Rouge, with its 30,000 fighters, continues to harass the Vietnamese occupiers...
...have an ABM defense around Moscow; the U.S. had one around a missile field in North Dakota, although it has been deactivated since 1975. Some officials hope that the talks that began last week might end in a similar deal, whereby the superpowers would agree to reduce their offensive strength and protect their remaining forces with limited defenses...
Since 1983 Brynner has been bravely and publicly fighting cancer. Knowledge of this battle gives added poignance to the King's credo: "Every day I try to live another day . . . Every day I do my best for one more day." But his strength as a performer, if not as a presence, seems sapped. The music in each line of dialogue has become a jingle, a sentiment not so much spoken as marketed; then comes a pause for laughter or applause or just mute admiration. In the show's wonderfully discreet mating ritual, Shall We Dance?, his new Anna (Mary Beth...
...rhyming first names and frequently confused last ones. Both believe that almost any economic problem can be solved by unfettering the forces of the marketplace, and both view with skepticism the advice of professional economists, even conservative ones. The two men also have an innate optimism about the underlying strength of the American system. These shared beliefs helped make Regan, an outsider in a clique of Californians and a political novice to boot, the Administration's chief economic power as well as one of the few advisers to meet privately with the President on a regular basis...