Word: weaknessness
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No wonder, then, that registration--and the actual draft it makes possible--helps allay the voters' fear of weakness, and spreads a halo of potency around the same armed forces we've had for almost a decade. The symbol Carter invoked in his State of the Union speech can mesmerize...
It's a comedown when LaRouche starts to answer questions, telling 11-year-old kids he will improve the schools by ridding the ranks of teachers "of SDS graduates who can't teach anything except how to smoke a joint and rock dancing." But before he leaves, someone asks him...
Brooks once said his team played "sophisticated pond hockey." Whatever its name, the style of the Americans is oddly schizophrenic. They ride players into the boards and forecheck -an oafish game. On offense, on the other hand, they strive -when they can remember their orders-to practice pinpoint passing. The...
That lead would have been six had not the six-ft. ten-in. Outlaw taken advantage of Harvard's major weakness all night long--shoddy rebounding--and hit a tip-in three-point-play at the buzzer.
The full Brandt commission recommendations for the 1980s and '90s are a combination of the ambitious and realistic plus the romantic and unpractical. The report correctly points out that nations spend $450 billion a year on arms but only $20 billion annually on official development aid. But Brandt'...