Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fiscal year 1985, Pentagon budget authority zoomed from $144 billion to $295 billion. The Pentagon's appetite for deluxe weaponry swallowed up so much of those titanic sums that the buildup failed to achieve some major goals. Overall, it did bring a much needed improvement in U.S. combat strength. But Ronald Reagan's dream of an Army of 18 full-strength divisions, a 40-wing Air Force and a 600-ship Navy remains unfulfilled. The budget for fiscal 1989 funds 18 trimmed-down divisions, 35 wings and 580 fighting ships...
Mitterrand's last-minute presidential plunge into the campaign reflected real Socialist fears that the French electorate, apparently in an unpredictable mood, was capable of anything -- including the return of a conservative majority. The Socialists, who initially expected a landslide victory on the strength of Mitterrand's electoral momentum, faltered in the first round of balloting on June 5. The party won only 37.5% of the vote, compared with 40.5% for the conservative alliance comprising the neo-Gaullist Rassemblement pour la Republique and the center-right Union pour la Democratie Francaise. The Communists, written off after their 6.8% score...
...White House, telling secrets -- they're obnoxious. But haven't we got a right to know those things? Aren't we obliged to know those things? The same goes for people selling snake oil and salvation. It's human weakness that they represent, but it's an American strength when they are exposed...
Harvard traditionally fills the vast majority of its senior faculty positions by luring professors from other universities to Cambridge. Harvard's ability to draw new senior professors has been based on the strength of its reputation and its facilities. But as other universities have employed new techniques to pull in the big fish, Harvard has had to create new programs to remain competitive in the academic market...
Bird, a co-captain on the Harvard men's swimming team, was not blessed with extraordinary size or strength, but his pool prowess enabled him to overcome those setbacks and become an Eastern champion...