Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush Administration is not even thinking about the matter in a serious, coordinated way. Neither the National Security Council, which is the President's personal think tank, nor the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, which is supposed to look over the horizon of foreign policy, is engaged in a systematic review of U.S. strategy for dealing with Marxist- Leninist regimes outside Europe. Instead, the regional experts of the + bureaucracy are nibbling away at their own pieces of what should be seen, and addressed, as a global challenge -- and opportunity...
...could be just another fleeting relaxation craze that attracts the curious and eventually bores them, like the flotation-tank phenomenon of the early 1980s. Not everyone likes the sensations the new stress-reduction machines produce. Complained a visitor to a Japanese salon: "It's like listening to an alarm clock all the time." Nonetheless, in this fast-paced era, professionals may turn on to new ways of combating stress -- especially since the habit will not show up in random drug tests...
...sometimes seemed that the tank-backed Communist Party monolith was now immovable, impenetrable, even immortal. But Brezhnev died, and so did his two successors, and the unthinkable idea of Communists actually surrendering power slowly began to become thinkable...
...Pentagon squanders billions on such expensive duds as the M-1 Abrams tank, the Bradley fighting vehicle and the Advanced Tactical Fighter. Meanwhile, the U.S. has by far the highest rate of infant mortality among the industrial democracies, and the rate of infant mortality among Black Americans exceeds those of several developing countries...
...several experts outside the Pentagon. It is called "develop -- but wait." Perform the R. and D., in short, but go to production only if the imagined threat clearly emerges and if the cost is manageable. A more idealistic version advocated by Seth Bonder, president of a Michigan think tank called Vector Research, would encourage the Pentagon to invest in R. and D. but actually build new weapons only if they would correct an impending imbalance with the Soviet Union; it should pass up those that would give the U.S. a destabilizing military advantage...