Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't invade us, he could have put resources into the war at sea . . . and starved us out," says Howard. "There's very little chance that we would have been able to survive." The strategist B.H. Liddell Hart, in History of the Second World War, applied the term "slow suicide" to Churchill's policy of fighting on. "By refusing to consider any peace offer," he wrote, "the British government had committed the country to a course that . . . was bound, logically, to lead through growing exhaustion to eventual collapse -- even if Hitler abstained from attempting its quick conquest by invasion...
...Carter term was marred by a running feud between the patrician, conciliatory Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and the scrappy, viscerally anti- Soviet National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski...
...Beijing's 67 universities opened for a new term last week, the mood on campus was strictly back to basics -- Communist basics. Two months after the bloody suppression of the student prodemocracy movement, the authorities are putting new emphasis on "political re-education." At Beijing Teachers College and other former hotbeds of student protest, incoming freshmen reported a month early for a required refresher course on Deng Xiaoping's speeches...
...long-term help, corporate America and organized labor are increasingly looking to a third party: the Federal Government. Several business and labor leaders are pushing for some type of national health plan in which everyone would automatically be insured. While a big-picture solution is still hazy, the problem is now in sharp focus: a debilitating financial drain on American workers, companies and the U.S. economy as a whole...
...seen-one-jungle-you've-seen-them-all philosophy. Clancy finds it routine that he learned all that he needed to know about the Army's light- fighters during a three-day visit to Fort Ord, Calif. "A warrior is a warrior," Clancy insists, using a favorite term of praise, "whether they're light infantrymen, submariners, fighter pilots or whatever. The way they express themselves may be different, but the personality types are pretty much the same...