Word: arsenale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton Administration, suddenly unconvinced that Russia has the wherewithal to cut its nuclear arsenal as planned, is hedging its bets on military security. Defense Secretary William Perry today complained that Moscow has fallen behind in dismantling of thousands of nuclear weapons called for under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. The apparent reason: "internal turmoil and old thinking," Perry said, as well as the high cost. In response, he said, the U.S. will keep its long-range missiles till Russia gets off the dime. BTW: Russia still has 25,000 nukes -- enough to destroy the world many times over...
...Crimson woman's golf team is the baby of the Harvard athletic department. A year-and-a-half ago, thanks to the efforts of persistent students, the golf team became a full fledge member of Harvard's athletic arsenal...
...microbes. But anyone who reads today's headlines knows how vain that hope turned out to be. New scourges are emerging -- AIDS is not the only one -- and older diseases like tuberculosis are rapidly evolving into forms that are resistant to antibiotics, the main weapon in the doctor's arsenal. The danger is greatest, of course, in the underdeveloped world, where epidemics of cholera, dysentery and malaria are spawned by war, poverty, overcrowding and poor sanitation. But the microbial world knows no boundaries. For all the vaunted power of modern medicine, deadly infections are a growing threat to everyone, everywhere...
While the ultimate terror would be a working bomb constructed by terrorists on their own, the much likelier catastrophe is a large purchase of plutonium by a country looking for a shortcut to a nuclear arsenal. "It's clear that the highest bidder is going to be a state," says Phebe Marr, an expert on Iraq at the National Defense University in Washington. A government with nuclear ambitions would want not just a single bomb but an arsenal or significant additions to an existing arsenal. One or two bombs could attract threats and retaliation from abroad. So an interested state...
...unpleasant he is?" Ravitch asked rhetorically about Fehr before a joint TV appearance Friday. "It's never been like that in all the negotiations I've been involved in." If the season were to end without a contract, the owners would retain powerful weapons in their arsenal: the legal right under labor law to impose their proposal for a salary cap and the ability to lock the players out of 1995 spring training if they balked. So like characters in a Clifford Odets play, the union believed their only recourse was to strike...