Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...private meeting between him and Brezhnev, who is vacationing in the Crimea. Byrd is expected to tell the Soviet leader that any further pronouncements like Gromyko's will only harden resistance to the treaty in the Senate. Brezhnev is likely to signal his understanding that it might be better to ease off until the Senate acts. But Western diplomats warned that if Byrd intends to lobby the Soviet leader for amendments that might make the treaty more acceptable to the Senate, he might as well have stayed home...
...told TIME last week: "For 15 years, American restraint has not been matched by Soviet restraint. The growth of Soviet military power has been relentless, reflecting unflagging determination. Are we going to be able to do what is necessary to protect our vital interests under SALT II, or better without SALT II?" While in uniform, he avoided giving his answer to that question, though he was known to have some doubts about the treaty that was signed in Vienna. In any event, Haig favors more spending on U.S. defense. Says he: "It is clear that from...
...North Koreans have now acquired military superiority over the South. The study concluded that between 1971 and 1977 North Korea not only upped its ground forces from 450,000 to 550,000 but, more important, increased its arsenal of weaponry. U.S. officials now estimate that Pyongyang enjoys a better than 2-to-1 artillery advantage over Seoul...
Even if none of the moratorium calls are approved, the whaling industry may soon be sunk by dwindling profits. Greenpeace has observed that the whaling ships of the U.S.S.R. are rusted and worn and that Japan's are only slightly better-a clear sign that the world's most rapacious whalers are hesitant to invest more money in a losing business where catches are ever smaller. Some species like the bowhead and right whales may now number no more than 3,000 and perhaps are headed irreversibly toward extinction. Thus as the meeting convenes in London, the question...
...ruling will undoubtedly breed some resentment. Weber himself last week predicted that the decision will have "a negative effect on people all over the country toward blacks." Perhaps. But the ruling will also bring hope. "I've done better than my parents ever dreamed," says James Nailor, a black electrician who was one of the first to be accepted into the Kaiser training program from which Weber was barred. "The decision means my children will have a chance to do better than I will. That's the American dream...