Word: put
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...kind of military overinsurance that the public was willing to pay for a decade ago looks like wretched excess now. Baker and the presidential National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft would like to reduce the price tag on modernization, put a "Bush stamp" on START, and eliminate from both superpowers' arsenals weapons that are as dangerous as they are expensive. Just before the Malta summit last year they suggested scrapping the MX in - exchange for a similar monster missile on the Soviet side, but the Pentagon squelched the idea -- for the time being...
...simple declaration of "emergency" would have put the plane on a fast track for landing. But airline pilots, partly out of pride and the certainty of a follow-up investigation, are often reluctant to take that step. "Complacency in the cockpit, failure to recognize and deal with hazards, is the most dangerous threat to air safety," says Jerome Lederer, an internationally known expert on the subject...
...Army attempts to build an antisatellite weapon would be put on hold. The U.S. depends far more heavily than the Soviet Union on satellites for intelligence and communications. It would have far more to lose in any competition with Moscow to see who could build the deadliest satellite killers. Saving: $1.4 billion...
...full of ideas, but I needed someone to collaborate with." After a rolling wave of cancellations, she took most of 1989 off before the Met debut, in order "to get things straight. Sometimes I wished the voice were like a violin, an instrument in a box -- and you could put the box in a closet." But the period of questioning is over. Time now to celebrate all those sad, mad girls in productions that just might suit. As the prima donna promises, "I'm just starting my prime...
...fact, it spans most of the northern hemisphere. From Britain to the Soviet Union, the flu has hit millions of Europeans, including Pope John Paul, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Diana. Britain was hit so badly that staff shortages and patient overloads forced hospitals to put off surgery that could wait. Several trials at London's Old Bailey had to be delayed...