81.   The aim, American officials said, is to drum up sufficient business to keep the defense manufacturers profitable and ready to serve the American military.

82.   The American military responded with much better recruitment and advertising techniques, and most important, with higher pay and better benefits.

83.   The American military that was so overwhelming in the Persian Gulf looks impotent in the Balkans.

84.   The American military needed tungsten, a scarce strategic metal used for hardening missiles.

85.   The American military provides intelligence to NATO commanders from Army drones with infrared cameras that fly over Macedonia at night.

86.   The American military today faces challenges certainly more complex, if in some respects less daunting, than those of the Cold War.

87.   The American military was fascinated by a weapon of mass destruction whose costs were so low compared with those for chemical arms and the atom bomb, recently invented.

88.   The American military has always sought to hold down its losses, but casualties are nonetheless accepted as the price the military had to pay for its activities.

89.   The American military was alerted and began to plan an evacuation.

90.   The American military has clammed up on many of the most basic details of the operation.