Word: superhawks
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...rising-sales tide isn't lifting all boats. Sales of smaller yachts are somewhat adrift. For instance, demand for Sunseeker's $550,000, 44-ft. (13 m) Superhawk 43 is languishing. "The top end is pulling the industry along," says Ed Slack, editor of International Boat Industry...
...remain in Iraq for years to come. There should be no illusions about the difficulty of Mesopotamian nation building. It has been attempted on this same ground many times before, by many other superpowers, and none--none--has ever succeeded. The last to try was England. Winston Churchill, a superhawk hero of the 20th century, ran the occupation, saw the futility of it and favored retreat. "We are paying 8 millions a year," he wrote his Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, in 1922, "for the privilege of living on an ungrateful volcano...
...Middle East violence began with skirmishes after Israeli superhawk Ariel Sharon visited the disputed holy site in old Jerusalem, escalated with the gut-wrenching televised death of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot as his father tried to shelter him, and then erupted when seething Palestinians (whom Yasser Arafat seemed at first unwilling and then unable to control) murdered and mutilated two Israeli soldiers. Prime Minister Ehud Barak ordered a military retaliation, which halted his lonely reach, or perhaps overreach, for a comprehensive peace...
...idea had been planted in Reagan's mind by his friend and frequent adviser Edward Teller, the Hungarian-born superhawk, often described as the father of the hydrogen bomb, whose bold and controversial ideas have occasionally led some of his fellow physicists to moan, "E.T., go home." Teller's brainstorm became Reagan's dream, and the dream became national policy. In a speech in March 1983, the President asked, "What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that . . . we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that...
...named to the prestigious post of First Lord of the Admiralty. He served as Secretary of Defense and later was Secretary of Energy in the 1970-74 Tory government headed by Edward Heath. Carrington, who was also chairman of the Conservative Party at that time, earned the nickname of "Superhawk" by urging Heath to take a strong stand against the striking unions. It proved to be a disastrous strategy and helped pave the way for the Tories' 1974 electoral defeat. But the experience taught him some valuable political lessons in moderation and pragmatism...