Word: ultramodernism
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...looked more like an armory than an airport. In fact, as Tzsuya Tsukushi, a Japanese television newscaster, put it, "Narita resembles nothing so much as Saigon airport during the Viet Nam War." All around the ultramodern terminal and along the highway leading to it, 14,000 Japanese security police stood at the ready, decked out for battle with shields and 4-ft. staves. Out in the nearby fields, clustered around "solidarity huts," more than 6,000 youthful protesters and wizened farmers brandished steel pipes and occasionally lobbed a fire bomb at the police flanks...
...average of three times monthly, a Soviet Tu-16 "Badger" reconnaissance jet roars off from the world's largest military base, just outside Murmansk, and heads westward to probe Norway's air defenses. Alerted by radar, a vast ultramodern command center in the craggy mountain range of northern Norway scrambles two Norwegian Royal Air Force F-104G Starfighters. The fighters usually intercept the Badger within a few minutes; one of them hangs off the Soviet craft's tail, while the other flies just ahead of its nose. The lead Norwegian Starfighter will then waggle its wings...
...three years will recognize real-world dilemmas: a politically volatile Middle East, with Saudi Arabia and Iran at loggerheads over oil prices; New York's banks hungering for Arab oil revenues to fend off a looming liquidity crunch; a spreading Middle Eastern arms race, with the U.S. shipping ultramodern weaponry to all takers in a frenetic struggle to retain influence and hold the Soviets at arm's length. The villain is the Shah of Iran, who appears as a double-dealing megalomaniac bent on re-establishing the Persian empire by military conquest, and secretly developing a nuclear arsenal...
Gilbert described the planned structure as a "large, ultramodern facility" that will enable the members of the Biochemistry Department to move from the crowded Biological Laboratories...
...Athens Graduate School of Economics and Business Science. Alexander, an avid collector of antique Rolls-Royces, is a shrewd businessman who graduated from Zurich University with an honors degree in mechanical engineering. Regarded as a forceful, ambitious pragmatist by his business associates, he developed his family's ultramodern shipbuilding facilities at Eleusis. "Christina wanted a hardboiled, tough decision maker," said one of her friends last week, "and that is what...