Word: strength
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...memoirs of Kennedy Administration advisers. No such as Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk, McGeorge Bundy, Theodore Sorenson, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., have spread the view that Kennedy's skillful use of flexible response--meeting Soviet moves with an equal amount of force--and the American superiority in conventional strength allowed the United States to prevail. But the transcripts of October 27, 1962 reveal a different picture...
...need hardly point out that to speak of Gary Hart's "passing" due to his not winning the Iowa caucus today is ludicrous. He is running without money behind three candidates who have demonstrated, granted, "political strength" among the liberal establishment and interest groups who influence the caucus's outcome. Walter Mondale did this, too, in 1984; but in 1984 Gary Hart was a better candidate for president. Since then, it may be true, he has "made mistakes," but he has also done more homework. His knowledge of such issues as defense and education reform, programmatic foreign policy, and national...
...economy's strength is confounding the pessimists. Though many analysts expected the October stock-market crash to bring economic growth to a halt, the Government said last week that during the final three months of 1987, the U.S. economy expanded at a robust 4.2% annual rate. The surge was propelled in part by the falling dollar, which enabled American manufacturers to sell more goods overseas. The volume of exports grew 20% during 1987, while import growth slackened to less than...
Only three years ago IBM's bigness was its strength, enabling the company to dominate the computer industry so thoroughly that its competitors cried out for antitrust relief. No more. Today Big Blue's bulk has become a colossal burden. While the rest of the computer industry has emerged from an overall slump and surged forward with robust sales increases, IBM has plodded along (1987 revenues: $54.2 billion, up just 8% in a two-year period). IBM has tried to become lighter on its feet by cutting staff, modernizing factories and streamlining its process for getting new products to market...
...search for a political solution, in fact, seemed far removed from the continuing violence in the occupied territories. In the two weeks after Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin first publicly announced the policy of "force, strength and blows" to put down the demonstrations, hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children have been clubbed and battered by Israeli soldiers. The apparent aim was not just to punish specific troublemakers but to terrorize the population into submission. Said Shamir: "Our task now is to re-create the barrier of fear between Palestinians and the Israeli military, and once again put the fear...