Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difference. That some men fight with incredible courage under fire, and that some do not. That men usually fight better in a good cause, but that some fight just as well in a bad cause. That morale is essential to victory, and that nothing improves morale so much as superior firepower. That war is cruel and wasteful but sometimes necessary. That
...Panzer Lehr Division, in which Colonel Helmut Ritgen served. Ritgen, who retired eight years ago from a military career and now lives near Hannover, says that Allied fire power in the Normandy campaign was overwhelmingly greater than anything he had faced on the Eastern Front. "We felt superior to the Russians," he recalls. "At first we were even convinced that we would be able to throw the Allies back from the beaches. But just moving up toward the front in Normandy under air attack discouraged...
...dominates the thinking of even the most powerful of the gulf nations, Saudi Arabia. Before the Iranian attackers hit the Saudi tanker off Ras Tanura last week, a U.S.-operated AWACS radar plane detected F-4s in the region and notified the Saudi air force. The Saudis scrambled their superior F-15 jet fighters in good time, but failed to engage the Iranian planes. The Saudis have at least 130 fighter aircraft, far more than the Iranians have in operating condition, but they are not eager to get involved in open combat...
While liberals love the Boston Globe, others think it is more like the smoking habit. You know it is bad for you, but you cannot give it up. Two Boston papers are superior: the Herald, with better columnists and editorials, and the Christian Science Monitor, which ranks higher overall...
Such bonanzas are making 1984 the best year ever for dealmaking. In addition to Socal and Gulf, mergermen have put Texaco and Getty Oil together in a $10.1 billion corporate marriage and arranged a $5.7 billion combine of Mobil and Superior Oil. During the first three months of 1984, company mergers valued at a total of $34 billion took place. Should they continue at this rate, the old annual record of $82.6 billion set in 1981 will easily be broken...