Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State Department, characteristically, is the stronghold of what might be called pragmatic traditionalists and Atlanticists, men like Eagleburger and Assistant Secretary for Europe Richard Burt, a former think-tank strategist and New York Times reporter. They believe that it is critically important to maintain close ties with America's allies and that it is still possible for the U.S. to sit down with the Soviets even as it stands up to them...
...Nations, will be the least qualified director in the 21-year history of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He is a political scientist whose main prior experience was as an aide to then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and as a strategic analyst at SRI International, a private think tank...
...drivers said that leasing would not increase profits. "If I had to pay $30 a night for a car and $10 for a tank of gas. I could not make a living," said William Cavallini, an 11-year cabbie...
True, it was a small profit, only $170 million on sales of $10 billion, and it came mostly from the sale of the tank division, not from making cars. Yet no one denies that Chrysler's progress has been prodigious. Had not a debilitating five-week strike last fall in highly profitable Canadian plants crippled operations, Chrysler would have eked out a profit in the auto business. More astonishing, the once cash-starved company now has a cash hoard of $900 million. Wall Street has halted its death watch: last year Chrysler's shares more than quintupled in price, from...
...Maclean knew everything!" exploded then Secretary of State Dean Acheson. A third Cambridge traitor, Harold ("Kim") Philby, remained under cover until 1963, when he too fled to the Soviet Union, the same year that Burgess died. In Moscow, Maclean had an innocuous job with a foreign policy think tank and, always a heavy drinker, died alone in his luxurious apartment. Said a Soviet official: "He had no Russian friends. Nobody likes a turncoat-in any country...