Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...document offered no specific recommendations, it did say Jerusalem could no longer ignore the P.L.O. The intelligence assessment came a fortnight after a critical report from the prestigious Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. In a study sponsored by the American Jewish Congress, the think tank concluded that none of the long-term peace options that either Shamir or the Palestinian leadership considers acceptable have any chance to succeed. The scholars argued that moving beyond the status quo requires a long process of mutual accommodation starting with direct talks with the P.L.O. and possibly ending with creation...
...world toward those of science, business, medicine and North American slang. In fact, a partial listing of what the language has been up to lately is enough to inspire depression: brain-dead, nose job, right-to-die, acid rain, crack, heat-seeker, asset stripping, greenmail, petro-currency, barf, drunk tank. There is not much here that would inspire Keats to write...
...control of nuclear arms is part of the larger, thoroughly laudable, but often abstract exercise of fine-tuning the balance of terror so as to make it a bit more balanced and a bit less terrible. CFE, by contrast, deals with real weapons, things that actually hurt people: a tank that can crush bodies on a town square; high explosives not measured in kilotons but still able to destroy a building and everyone in it; and that most essential fighting machine, a young man in uniform afraid of dying and therefore ready to kill...
...haven't hurt my family and me," he said last week. "They have." Lorenzo maintains that he has done everything in his power to prevent Eastern from folding. He recalls the options that former Eastern Chairman Frank Borman described for the airline in 1986: "Fix it, sell it, or tank it." Unable to fix it, Borman sold it. As the bankruptcy court now begins to address the formidable task of putting Eastern back together again, Lorenzo was facing the possibility last week that tanking Eastern may yet turn out to be the only choice left...
Without that third tank, the shuttle might not have electricity to support a five-day flight plus two days for any contingencies...