Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Weinberger in Saudi Arabia and Oman were simultaneously pursuing the same objective: laying the diplomatic groundwork to secure a chain of facilities that the American Rapid Deployment Force might some day use to hopscotch from the U.S. to the Middle East on its way to counter a Soviet thrust...
...Soviet-U.S. nuclear balance: The principal thrust of our nuclear doctrine has always been, and continues to be, retaliatory. We have concentrated on our ability to launch a second strike against their cities and industries if they were to attack us first. Soviet doctrine and deployments have been primarily ones of counterforce (the ability to destroy military targets). Counterforce suggests first strike rather than retaliation. The reason that we are now building up our own counterforce ability is not because we contemplate a first strike but because we are increasingly concerned that our traditional deterrent has ceased...
Support and interest gradually slipped prompting the drive for the new government that was originally slated for implementation this spring. The Assembly convened in the fall expecting it to be the body's last term but Faculty objections to guarantees of minority representation for the new government thrust the Assembly into existence for at least another semester
...been faulty. Said De Vries: "Reaganomics was intended to provide incentives and productivity gains. But the policy is increasingly thought of in terms of high interest rates and unemployment. That's not right. That's not what Reaganomics was meant to be." It is not the general thrust of the President's program that the economists question, but rather his inflexible stance against any changes in spending priorities or new taxes of any description. With some compromises and repairs, Reaganomics could still be a powerful engine of economic growth in the years ahead. -By Charles Alexander
...when Woodbury refused to leave, an angry classmate advanced and struck him in the face, and the entire class crowded around, picked him up, and "immediately thrust him headlong over the stairs." The president refused to continue the gathering, and later that evening called four students before the government, charged them with throwing Woodbury out of the chapel, and expelled them...