Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kaplan agrees, pointing to Heimert's "kegerator" tradition. Each year, Kaplan says, the master auctions off the device--a refrigerator with a carbon dioxide tank--to a group of seniors, insisting that they only serve "foreign...
...preceding four weeks, Chinese courts had been churning through 29 similar trials with remarkable, if cruel, efficiency. Also sentenced to 13 years was Chen's colleague Wang Juntao, 32, an editor at the Beijing Social and Economic Research Institute, a private think tank headed by Chen. But those among the defendants who showed signs of repentance were treated "leniently" and given lighter sentences. Student leader Wang Dan, the most wanted student after the Tiananmen massacre, drew only four years because he recanted and "exposed others" -- among them Chen Ziming, as prosecutors claimed at last week's trial...
While the Army and Marine divisions form a giant pincer to isolate the Iraqi forces on the battlefield, the airborne troops could be dropped behind enemy lines from Black Hawk helicopters to lure the Republican Guards out of their tank bunkers. Once in the open, the Guards would be easy pickings for allied tank killers like the Thunderbolt and Harrier jets and the Apache and Cobra helicopters...
...AirLand scenario, the long-awaited face-off between the U.S.'s high- tech M1A1 tank, with its turbine engine and depleted-uranium armor, and the battle-tested Soviet-built T-72, with its devastating 125-mm gun, would never come to pass. Iraq's heavy armor would be kept at arm's length, picked off from a distance by armor-piercing rounds, laser-guided Hellfires and heat- seeking Mavericks fired from the air. Scout planes and helicopters would identify targets, "squirt" them with lasers, and guide helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft in for the kill. "The point is to reduce...
That's the theory. How it will work remains to be seen. An AirLand battle requires long-range planning, superb coordination, perfect timing, uninterrupted communications, pinpoint accuracy, constant high-speed maneuvering by ground forces and well-executed logistics. Getting fuel and ammunition to tank battalions traveling up to 120 miles a day calls for a massive resupply operation that leaves little room for error. The moment a unit stops moving, the battle risks degeneration into a war of attrition in which both sides would take casualties until the less powerful force is worn down...