Word: arsenal
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Congress Watch, which handles most of Nader's lobbying. It operates on a budget of $145,000 and employs seven full-time lobbyists, who are backed up with an arsenal of research...
What lifts this film into orbit?and what saves it from being a shaggy flying-saucer story?is the breathless wonder that the director brings to every frame. Whether he is showing us a pristine, starry Midwestern sky or displaying Special Effects Wizard Douglas Trumbull's formidable arsenal of spaceships and celestial storms, Spielberg seems to be looking at everything onscreen as if for the first time. The freshness of his vision is contagious?and exhilarating. While most thrillers, including Jaws, manipulate the audience mechanically, Close Encounters makes it a partner in the film maker's quest for excitement...
...second characteristic of the MX, which often attracts less publicity, is its lethality: the MX would have substantially more throw-weight and accuracy than missiles currently in the American arsenal. This would be of particular value in attacking Soviet missiles, whose hardened silos appear to be effective against all but the most accurate and powerful of missiles...
...proponents fear that the Soviets would doubt our willingness to launch counter-value weapons, inviting a Soviet retaliation and assuring mutual destruction. According to the argument, a limited Soviet attack could only be deterred by U.S. readiness and capability to retaliate against the missiles remaining in the Soviet arsenal and against once-used silos to prevent reloading. Backers of the MX say the missile is needed for such an option because current land-based missiles are too vulnerable to a first-strike and the air and sea weapons on the triad lack either sufficient accuracy or power to threaten...
...Soviet Union than they have ever been. At least in part, current Soviet programs of escalation constitute a reaction to American development of new multiple, independently-targeted re-entry vehicles, to breakthroughs in missile accuracy, and to the development of the cruise missile. Adding the MX to our arsenal could only heighten Soviet fears of an American first-strike, send them into yet another frenzy of rapid nuclear weapons development, and forestall any willingness on their part to negotiate arms reductions. What we view as defensive measures can easily be seen by the other side as aggressive weapons warranting stepped...