Word: adds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should reject the treaty," he says flatly. "We should add $4 billion or $5 billion to the defense budget." Nitze believes that accepting SALT II as it now stands could be "the point of no return" for the U.S., a point after which the nation would be locked into trends that would assure the Soviets nuclear superiority...
...Though that is about four times the average Korean's annual income, snake devotees believe the albino is a bargain: the typical 1½ ft.-long paik-sa, when tastily boiled and simmered, is claimed by Korea's version of snake-oil salesmen to add years to the life of the intrepid consumer...
...artists seem to have conspired to ruin this effect. William Wainwright's plans to build a series of giant mobiles to hang from the glass roof seem misdirected. Although Wainwright's compositions of oblong chrome and reflecting prisms would be great in Boston-Boston, one wonders what they'll add to the station. Carolos Dorrien's granite wall piece stands nearby, looking strangely uncomfortable for an inanimate object...
When she arrived in Cambridge, Pam could perform a front two-and-one-half off the three-meter board, but could only do it in tuck (legs bent and tucked tightly against the body during the somersaults) position. To learn to do it in pike (legs straight throughout) would add .2 (the difference between 2.1 and 2.3) to the dive...
Several of us read your untitled novel here with admiration for writing and style. Jerzy Kosinski comes to mind as a point of comparison when reading the stark, chilly, episodic incidents you have set down. The drawback to the manuscript, as it stands, is that it doesn't add up to a satisfactory whole...