Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Britain has evaporated, and a buyer with the money can now walk in and get one right off the showroom floor. U.S. sales in 1979 fell off 10%, to 1,002. Moreover, Rolls' diesel-engine division is in trouble, mainly because a $150 million contract to make Iranian tank engines fell through when the Shah was overthrown. Overall, profits before taxes fell 50% last year, to $15 million, on revenues of about $336 million...
European commentators argue that the U.S. simply can no longer act alone. Thierry de Montbrial, head of France's most distinguished foreign policy think tank, said recently: "It's time for the U.S. to listen to us." But what are the Europeans saying, beyond no? They may be right in arguing, for example, that it is no use blustering about the crucial importance of the Persian Gulf if the U.S. lacks the ready practical means to defend it-although one can just hear the screams about U.S. passivity if Washington had not "blustered...
...trimming their armed forces for the past decade, the Soviets have been expanding theirs. As a result, their 3.6 million-man active force is nearly twice the size of the U.S. military and second in the world only to China's 4.4 million. During the past decade, the Soviet tank force has grown by 35%, artillery by 40%, fixed-wing tactical aircraft by 20%. On average, one new medium-range SS-20 mobile missile system, with three warheads, is deployed every week. Twenty new warships are delivered to the Soviet navy every year, vs. twelve...
...Bronco Billy, the new Clint Eastwood movie, nor Carny, which introduces Robbie Robertson of the Band to the Hollywood fiction film, has so much as a single irony up its workshirt sleeve. They both tell the story of a good ole boy leading his small-top troupe from one tank town to another, juggling dreams of success and threats of eviction, extortion and worse. Add a couple of good buddies, a venal politician or two-and, most important, a little love interest to salt the stew-and the result is a movie that looks to be right out of Hollywood...
Three volunteers at Duke University in Durham, N.C., set a world record this spring when they spent 28 days in a pressure tank to simulate a dive 2,132ft. into the sea. To raise money for the American Heart Association, Ohio State University students played a 4,378-seat game of musical chairs last month and broke the old record of 3,728 chairs...