Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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"It strikes me as unlikely that the state legislature--which has maintained the property tax in its current form for 25 years--will be able to hammer out sensible reform in a single term. And if they don't, it means disaster," Sullivan said.
But the Warsaw Pact nations have a big edge in both troops and tanks. Moreover, supplies are so limited that the U.S. Army could not engage in a major tank war for more than eight weeks without either risking defeat or having to resort to tactical nuclear weapons-a perilous...
Yet those forces are not available. The NATO members have only a limited ability to rearm, resupply or even communicate with one another. Says U.S. Under Secretary of Defense Robert Komer: "We still plan, configure, size, train and equip our forces nationally, as if each of us were going to...
Work crews, firemen and army disaster specialists nonetheless managed to rescue many of the living. On Wednesday, five days after the quake, a ten-month-old baby girl was found hungry but unhurt. Unlike so many children wandering the streets, she was reunited with older sisters and brothers. By then...
America's economy has visited the nether reaches under Carter's guidance; yet his only response to the abject misery of millions is to emphasize the unfairness of life and induce a job-robbing recession. Abroad, despite his avowed commitment to "human rights," Carter has shared the acquisitive and paranoid...