Word: leviathan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps it is time that some of our leviathan military budget, huge portions of which are channeled into conventional forces in West Germany and $500 million individual aircraft, could be given to the professed war on drugs that rents the fabric of our own society...
Anybody bold enough to challenge the liberal leviathan gains instant respect. Of course, this isn't the first time a Republican has pledged to send Teddy Kennedy into retirement: Ray Shamie tried in 1982, but collected less than 40 percent of the vote...
...died in the 17th century, British thinker Thomas Hobbes would have liked this movie so much that philosophy students today would be reading a book entitled "Robocop" instead of "Leviathan...
...iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage in 1912, carrying more than 1,500 passengers to their deaths, has been celebrated in print and on film, in poetry and song. But last week what had been legendary suddenly became real. As they viewed videotapes and photographs of the sunken leviathan, millions of people around the world could sense her mass, her eerie quiet and the ruined splendor of a lost...
...clearest indications has been the transformation of IRI, a vast state-run conglomerate that dates back to Mussolini. The 1,079 firms in IRI's portfolio include Alfa Romeo, Alitalia airline and Banca Commerciale Italiana, the country's second-largest bank. While this leviathan was losing nearly $2 billion a year, previous governments had been reluctant to touch it. Craxi encouraged IRI's new president, Romano Prodi, to take bold action. He promptly laid off 47,000 unionized workers and raised more than $3 billion by selling all or part of 35 companies and other holdings...