Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even so, Harvard played a sub-pargame against Cornell, allowing sloppy defense and a less-than-spectacular passing game...
...local radio station asks Ventura at the last minute to sub for its regular host. Luckily, he has a window. "You still have to worry about swearing," he says...
...wake. And perhaps that's really best; for if she did have a look, Ally might see her dream of upmarket long-term love crumble like so much poorly packed wedding china. Indeed, what Ally would discover is that life with a good-looking professional and a Sub-Zero fridge doesn't add up to much, that happiness might be easier to come by if she returned to wherever she came from and made sure that Mom and Dad hadn't turned her girlhood room into an outpost for their StairMaster...
...murky mission for today's sub fleet has affected morale on board the nation's fleet of 65 attack subs, which is slated to be reduced to 50 in 2003. Young officers who dreamed of chasing Soviet subs around the globe can't figure out what they are supposed to do. "A concise submarine-force mission statement would help junior officers understand why they are at sea," a Navy lieutenant writes in Proceedings. "Without a mission statement, there is no sense of direction for the submarine force." And the Navy is having difficulty manning (no women serve aboard U.S. submarines...
Given the dearth of threats, some experts see no need for a 50-sub fleet. Ivan Eland of the Cato Institute, a Washington think tank, argues that a force of 25 is more than adequate. If the Navy kept its current submarines steaming for their planned 30-year lives and bought no new ones, the U.S. sub fleet would still not fall to 25 until 2017. That's not how they see things at the Pentagon, however. Its Defense Science Board recently urged the Navy to begin planning the next-next-generation attack submarine--one that will be better...