Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uncomfortable in Cambridge's doctrinaire liberal climate, the conservative Schlesinger took a teaching post at the University of Virginia, where he wrote a book titled The Political Economy of National Security. It caught the eye of top executives at the Rand Corp., the U.S.'s premier think tank, who hired Schlesinger as a senior staff member. He later became director of strategic studies. At Rand, Schlesinger proved, as one colleague recalls, that "he could out-McNamara Mc-Namara"-then the cerebral Defense Secretary and systems analyst par excellence...
...TANK COMPONENTS. In 1974 former Defense Secretary'James Schlesinger and Defense Minister Leber agreed that there should be fair competition between the West Germans' Leopard II battle-tank prototype and the Americans' XM-1; if the Leopard won the competition, the U.S. would also accept it as its major armored vehicle for the mid-1980s. The decision was hailed as an important step toward equipment standardization within NATO-until U.S. military pride and industry pressure opposed it. As a compromise, Schlesinger's successor, Donald Rumsfeld, worked out an agreement in principle with the Germans to make...
Then a hitch developed: the U.S. Army leaked the "results" of tests on the two tanks, which implied that the Leopard was inferior to the XM-1. Infuriated, the Germans let it be known that if Washington reneged on the tank agreement, Bonn would refuse to go along with the U.S. plan to have NATO adopt AWACS, an American-made flying early-warning system, for which West Germany was to put up a quarter of the $2.6 billion cost...
...Charlestown Chiefs represent one of those old, grimily industrialized middle-size Northeastern cities, the kind of place most viewers hear about only when it loses a defense contract. In a desperate attempt to turn his losers into winners, the coach (Paul Newman) converts the team from skaters into brawlers?tank-town versions of the old, notorious Philadelphia Flyers. His tactics are as low as the team's skills in language arts, and just as effective. Slowly one passes from shock to sympathy and laughter. One appreciates as well Director Hill's solid realization of the minor-league ambience?plasticized motels...
...Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Bombeck...