Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since a service's hardware affects the role it wins in strategy and gives it the backing of a powerful segment of industry, no branch willingly gives up a promising weapon in favor of a similar one developed by a competitor. The Army's attempt to hold a place in space resulted in the Pentagon compromise to manufacture both the Jupiter (Army) and Thor (Air Force) intermediate-range ballistic-missile systems. Today's snowballing result is a duplication in production facilities, costly ground-handling equipment and training, as Jupiters are being installed in Italy and Turkey while...
...searchers detected no sign of the capsule. Sadly, they came to the bleak conclusion that the Discoverer Program's fifth recovery attempt had failed...
...major ways: 1) Pursuing desirable but impracticable aims. Example: advocating "liberation" of the Eastern Europe satellites. 2) Pursuing contradictory aims. Example: aiding rebel Indonesian army officers while maintaining ostensibly amicable relations with President Sukarno. 3) Equating mere proclamation with policy. Example: the Eisenhower Doctrine for the Middle East, an attempt to scare off Soviet infiltration that, in Author Hughes's opinion, failed...
...easily, 33 to 6. In its next game the freshmen were clearly outclassed by Boston College and showed that it needed more unity in order to avoid similar humiliations. Against B.C. quarterbacks Charlie Kinney and Terry Bartolet proved to be talented passers although they were quickly rushed on every attempt. The playing of a few individuals was the only bright spot that afternoon and was a sign of things to come for the 1959 freshman...
...third major point, Kissinger spoke of the future of "uncommitted" nations. Denying that the United States should attempt to match all Russian programs in these countries, he affirmed that foreign aid is necessary. He expressed doubt that foreign aid will be decisive in shaping the loyalties of these new and underdeveloped countries. "I ame not at all convinced that the pedantic rules of Western policy, combined with a certain lack of energy, might not be less appealing than Moscow and Peiping," he added...