Word: coldness
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Wang said the perception of Asian people as foreign threats continued past Japanese interment through the Cold War, and is currently evident in the Lee case...
Conservatives believe that SDI, along with the massive American military buildup in the '80s, was the strategy by which Reagan forced the Soviets to bankrupt themselves, hastening the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union. The timing of those events, at the end of the Reagan years, disconcerts Reagan's critics. They claim that the Soviet collapse was the result of long years of economic inefficiency and deterioration, and of Gorbachev's loosening of the bolts through glasnost and perestroika...
...questions seem endless. They collide with my emotions, still fresh from that cold spring day. My father rushed into surgery, the doctors desperately trying to find a bullet that ended up being a quarter of an inch from his heart. Our long, dark plane flight from California, not knowing if our father would be alive when we got there. Michael, Maureen and I were flown back on an Army transport plane. Ron was in the middle of the country, and they chartered a plane to get him to Washington. My mother curled up in bed that night with a shirt...
Fair Ball reveals none of the weepy sentimentalism of a purist disappointed in the modern game. This carefully argued series of prescriptive, cold-eyed remedies targeting baseball's chronic illnesses is far more valuable than that, aiming to repair the increasing imbalance of rich clubs and poor ones; the potentially self-immolating hard line of the players' union; the idiocy of the playoff system. Best of all, baseball's finest broadcaster may actually have the credibility to bring the ironheaded owners and players to heel. Costas for Commissioner...
...TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson thinks these findings mask a deeper-seated problem in today's military: the lack of a clearly defined and imposing enemy. "The big toll on morale has been the end of the Cold War combined with the rise in non-combat missions that troops are increasingly deployed on," says Thompson. "The missions aren't as exciting today as they were during the Cold War. The fundamental problem is the loss of the Soviet Union." The findings, say Thompson, could help lead to a reexamining of the size of America's military. "When the Chiefs...