Word: unleash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iraqi soldiers killed. Billions of dollars spent on the war effort each month. Iranian children as young as nine or 10 slaughtered in suicide assaults on Iraqi minefields. And the stakes seem high enough. Sixty percent of the West's oil flows from the Gulf. An Iranian victory might unleash a wave of radical Islamic fundamentalism throughout the region, threatening the stability of moderate Arab states...
...Machel, the decisive impetus toward accommodation was a growing fear that South Africa might unleash its vastly superior muscle against Mozambique. In the past year South Africa has conducted major military operations against guerrilla strongholds of the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO) in Angola and has staged periodic raids on A.N.C. bases in Mozambique. Despite its battlefield successes, however, South Africa has been growing weary of the regional struggle, which is expected to consume some 10% of this year's national budget and has brought a mounting toll of casualties...
...Chairman Gardner Ackley argued that taxes had to be raised to pay for the Viet Nam War, but Johnson would not hear of it. He later changed his mind and signed a tax-increase bill in 1968, but the delay was a costly mistake. Many economists believe it helped unleash the inflationary spiral that U.S. policymakers have been battling ever since...
...giant would strengthen Syria's credentials to be Arab standardbearer. Though the terms of the 1980 Soviet pact with Damascus have never been revealed, officials in Moscow have hinted that Soviet troops would enter the fray only if Syrian territory were invaded. According to British intelligence officials, Moscow would unleash the Soviet-manned SA-5s to counter a full-scale Israeli move against Syrianheld Lebanon, but it would hold its fire in the face of a U.S. offensive, leaving it to the Syrians to retaliate. Administration officials believe that the Syrian attacks on U.S. reconnaissance planes were not an invitation...
...invasion of Lebanon. The transition from Begin to Shamir in October and the ongoing economic crisis have intensified this perception. U.S. planners see Shamir as moving forcefully as a leader now and believe that his stronger ties with Washington may impress Syria. "The idea that we plan to unleash the Israelis on Syria is just not right," insists one U.S. official. "But if Syria sees that neither we nor Israel intends to give way, it may behave differently." The new arrangements were meant, says one senior Administration official, as "a message to Syria and a message to the Soviets...