Word: adds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev's figures do not quite add up, since manpower in the divisions he intends to demobilize appears to exceed 50,000. There are an estimated 585,000 Soviet troops in the three nations, so shrinkage would be only 8.5%. These reductions would have little impact on combat effectiveness or the Soviet army's intimidating effect on the occupied nations...
...Soviet moves will undoubtedly add to the U.S. domestic pressure to hold down America's military spending. Demands to recall some of the 320,000 U.S. troops in Europe may grow. Even as he may have softened the NATO alliance, Gorbachev also looked toward China with a soothing pledge to pull back an unspecified but "major portion" of his troops from Mongolia...
...Project, an enterprise of the Center for Health Communication at Harvard's School of Public Health (SPH), is drawing on the power of the American mass media to "add momentum to changes that are already beginning to occur in reducing drunk driving and increasing use of the designated driver," says Winsten...
...most European nations, students begin learning one foreign language at age 11, and often add a second three or four years later. In the United States, 1985 statistics show, only 15 percent of high school students study any foreign language at all, and less than 4 percent of high school graduates have had more than two years of a foreign language...
...dinner, on a cold winter night. Prepare it yourself, and add candlelight...