Word: use
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began speaking softly, but then his voice turned bitter. His tone and words hushed the crowd at the city hall ceremony in Manhattan marking the beginning of Viet Nam Veterans Week. "You people ran a number on us," declared Robert Muller, 33, a former Marine lieutenant who lost the use of his legs in Viet Nam combat when a bullet shattered his spine. "Your guilt, your hang-ups., your uneasiness made it socially unacceptable to mention the fact that we were Viet Nam veterans." Pounding his knee with a clenched fist, he accused most Americans of regarding G.I.s who fought...
...Kremlin, the dilemma of having either to capitulate or to order a massive atomic attack. But there is an obvious, enormous danger. Once the military nuclear threshold is crossed, there is no guarantee that the momentum can be controlled to keep the exchange limited. Warns Secretary Brown: The use of "any nuclear weapons. . . carries a very high risk, though not the certainty, of escalating to a full-scale thermonuclear exchange...
...survival of the U.S. as we know it rests on our ability to use less fuel and yet preserve the nation's circulatory system. The auto industry, running at about $100 billion a year, after some grousing has joined the reinvention deliberations. The Government is preparing to take part in a $100 million research program. Reinventing the car has become part of the political and economic language since Adams first proposed it last...
...give it to them straight? thought Adams. He had just arrived at a critical conclusion. The transportation policy of the previous decade had been based on the flawed idea of persuading Americans to get out of their cars and use other forms of transportation. The data before him showed it could not be done short of a threat of extinction. Also, his probings of the auto industry convinced him that there was more research in sales and promotion than in the mechanics of making cars. "Go back to 'cut and try' engineering," he told his astonished audience...
...federal government re frained from overreacting and jeopardizing civil liberties. During the whole period, Schmidt acted coolly and shrewdly. First of all, he had the sense not to call army troops out into the streets, which would have alarmed Germans and other Europeans alike. When he did use troops, in 1977, it was to launch the dramatic commando raid that rescued a hijacked Lufthansa airliner at Mogadishu...