Word: springly
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Overlooked in the emotional duel between Genuine Risk and Codex was a typical Belmont field: a collection of dangerous colts that had been lightly raced through the spring, lying in wait for the favorites to falter. Among them was Temperence Hill. The Kentucky-bred bay colt had won the Arkansas Derby, then faltered in his final Triple Crown prep races and been returned to his home stable on the Belmont backstretch to recoup. Trainer Joe Cantey decided to test his horse in the Withers Stakes, one week after the Kentucky Derby, but the colt finished second and Temperence Hill...
Today, however, a career in the armed forces is not attracting enough talented Americans. The Pentagon is handicapped by shortages of sufficiently skilled and disciplined personnel in all ranks. A House Armed Services Committee report this spring charged that the U.S. now fields "a force with deficient military credibility." And Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman David C. Jones admits that "our No. 1 readiness problem is people, the availability of trained people." These views were echoed strongly at a TIME seminar on the alarming status of American military manpower (see following story...
...thus easier to manage. The British services also draw on a more homogeneous society than the American, Finally, British military morale has improved since Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government pushed through a 32% pay raise for the armed forces last spring. British servicemen are now generally paid the same as civilians in comparable jobs; their American counterparts still lag far behind...
...speculations of recent history, and it provided a blunt reminder that even billionaires can get in over their heads. With their dreams of cashing in on last winter's silver boom now transformed into mushrooming debts of $980 million, Bunker, Herbert and Lamar Hunt have been struggling all spring to fend off ruin. Papers on file last week in the Dallas County Courthouse, and elsewhere around the country, showed just how desperate their plight has become, as well as the extent of their fabled wealth...
Elsewhere the Soviets have been subtler. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko visited France this spring in the midst of the boycott debate there; he pointedly told journalists that important trade-contract discussions were under way that could prove extremely profitable to the French. Although the Philippines had already been promised Moscow's free Olympic travel package if it decided to attend, the Soviets sent word later that large-scale purchases of Philippine coconut products were under consideration. No link was made to Olympic politics, but then none was needed. The message arrived only a few days before a meeting...