Word: true
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet buildup in conventional weapons has been equally significant. Although Brezhnev says that "the forces of either side in sum total approximately equal each other," NATO remains outgunned and outmanned by the Warsaw Pact in the strategically crucial central and northern European regions. This remains true despite the West's recent program to upgrade its forces. Facing NATO'S 7,000 tanks and 2,700 artillery pieces, for example, are 21,000 and 10,000, respectively, for the East. In manpower NATO is dwarfed 626,000 vs. 943,000. Such overwhelming military superiority could tempt the Soviets to try enforcing...
...senior Kremlin watchers in Moscow puts it flatly, and puts it best: "Brezhnev runs the show." In the old days, it is true, the President's sleek black ZIL limousine roared down the center lane of Kutuzovsky Prospekt to the Kremlin every morning at 8 o'clock. Now it usually arrives after 10. Brezhnev takes more naps than he once did, and more vacations. His attention span is shorter. Instead of the impromptu policy discussions he used to thrive on, he greets important political visitors with remarks and toasts read from papers prepared for him. Much of his old zest...
...grader that he knows a lot more than he actually does, the vague generality is a key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject, might very well mean something to the grader. The true master of the generality is the student who can write a ten page essay that means nothing at all to the writer, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads...
...time to leave. I tell them if they go into the cage to sleep they will be closed in the cage and put into small cages. At first, they do not understand me, then they do not believe me. Alfonso speaks; he says he knows what I say is true, that I have never lied to the birds. It is time to leave. He says he knows how to go, that it is a long flight and some will die, but he is going, so is Birdie, and they are leaving in the early morning. I listen...
After the song, Kid Leo, the gravel-voiced WMMS d.j., came on the air with an amazing announcement. It seemed that the mayor's brother, Perry Kucinich, had just been arrested and charged with robbing a local bank. It was hard to believe but it was true. The station had double checked...