Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long (37 ft.) or, by modern standards, very fancy. The flight of Conestoga I, an arc 192 miles up and 326 miles out over the Gulf of Mexico, was perfect but fleeting, less than eleven minutes from blastoff to splashdown. The dummy payload was just a 1,100-lb. tank of water. Said Donald ("Deke") Slayton, the former astronaut who was flight director for the launch: "We didn't have a single anomaly in flight...
...Politburo struck at New York and London instead of a single English manufacturing city, worldwide incineration could hardly have been avoided. Had several nations of the Western alliance not reversed their pinchpenny defense policies and bought desperately needed new weapons systems in the early 1980s, the brutal tank and air attacks of the Soviets could not possibly have been stalled. Had the Poles not sabotaged their own military transport...
...clothing industry: Danskin, leading manufacturer of tights and leotards, does about $100 million in sales annually. In the Sunbelt, where warm weather discourages women from buying next season's Paris original, jock chic is rampant. With men and women flaunting tanned, exercised bodies, the fashion is sportswear: headbands, tank tops, jogging shorts and running shoes. In offices and at informal dinner parties, the high-casual look has become acceptable. Exercise togs appear in the windows of a Rodeo Drive boutique; and at night, on Sunset Strip, young prostitutes parade in gym shorts and leg warmers...
Near a colonel's bunkered command post, soldiers fill empty shell casings with water from tank trucks. The sound of outgoing Iraqi artillery is constant, there is little fire coming from the Iranian side. Some of the men sleep beneath slanting canvas hutches. Others spread carpets on the sand and pray toward Mecca. When one enemy round explodes several hundred yards away, they continue their prayers without flinching. "During the [last] battle," says the colonel, with undisguised pride, "they were in their tanks for 36 hours, buttoned down all the time, and fighting. That...
...latest sooth, says the veteran think-tank commander Herman Kahn, is that prosperity and stability are probably just around the next bell curve. Barring bad luck and bad management, the last 18 years of the century should see higher productivity, lower inflation and a resurgence of traditional values. This upbeat news comes from a man who has taken a particular pleasure in bucking intellectual trends. Kahn, a co-founder and director of the Hudson Institute, infuriated liberals of the early '60s with two books that can still start an argument. On Thermonuclear War and Thinking About the Unthinkable asserted...