Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHILE East Asia was building its economic power, the superpower duo was building up their arms caches. Like bumbling giants, both have the strength of 10 nations but can't figure out how to use it. The U.S. may have figured this out in 1975 when Saigon fell; the Soviet Union is learning this critical lesson now as it tries to extricate itself from the disastrous campaign in Afghanistan...
...military strength of both nations is proving to be their weakness, due to their misuse of it. The U.S. is overextended with questionable commitments in Panama, historical duties in Western Europe, and the burden of protecting the world's oil supply in the Middle East. As a result, defense spending accounts for a disproportionate share of the skyrocketing budget--$300 billion this year...
...once was able to use its strength to set up an international arena for trade and investment, but now it is finding itself uncompetitive at the game it taught the world to play. And losing that game has spurred the United States to search for an alternative definition for our national purpose. This is difficult because our way of life has always been tied to our dominance as a superpower. It's like the line in Platoon when one U.S. soldier in the middle of a Vietnamese jungle says of his nation--we've been kicking ass for so long...
...Greenwich, Conn.; his mother had married a prosperous New York businessman named Joe Capote, who turned out to be a kindly stepfather.) Capote wangled a job at The New Yorker, and at night wrote and overwrote fevered, delicate, swamp-baroque stories that were skewed images of Monroeville. On the strength of one story in Mademoiselle, Random House signed the new phenom to a book contract...
...Store 24, 1438 Mass. Ave., all three-packs sell for $1.99 except LifeStyles Extra Strength, which costs $2.49. Sage's, across the street from Quincy House, sells LifeStyles condoms in 12-packs that range in price from...