Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conventional war in the future will most likely be relatively short. Thus the need for masses of troops is just not there. The proposed programs would cost over $50 billion; for much money the Volunteer Army could be made more attractive. Also the presence of thousands more troops could tempt politicians into engaging in adventurous interventions around the globe. Morally, the prospect of rights removed, liberties taken away, and slave-like labor is repellant...
...have little if any oil of their own and seem willing to pay any price for supplies. As Nazih was speaking, a tanker was reportedly loading 300,000 tons of crude at Iran's Kharg Island for Japan at the new, extortionate price. The easy sale could well tempt other producing nations to post similar price increases in the days ahead...
...that simply. No Len Deighton plot ever does. In his unraveling, the au thor of The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin produces a series of memorable set pieces. In one celebrating German-Soviet Friendship Week (Hitler had decided not to invade the Soviet Union), there is an at tempt to disinter the bones of Marx from his Highgate resting place for reburial in Mother Russia; old Karl gets no closer to Moscow than he did in his lifetime...
...delicacy: snake. Among the potables on their bills of fare are bottles of a vodka-like liquor in which live serpents have been put to steep. Another quick pick-me-up is whisky fortified with powdered python. Also on the menu is tang, thick, pale yellow serpent soup. To tempt appetites, restaurateurs feature window displays of writhing snakes in glass bowls...
...department contends that decontrol would probably not greatly increase the premium on unleaded, now 4.4%, it agrees that under the worst of circumstances, the gap between prices for leaded and unleaded could increase to 8?. Some experts fear that a big differential between the two kinds of gas would tempt motorists to use leaded in cars designed for unleaded. That would damage the car's antipollution gear and increase exhaust emissions...