Word: brent
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...Brent Scowcroft, Bush's National Security Adviser, has been pushing for nearly a decade for a new kind of nuclear arsenal -- small forces of mobile, single-warhead missiles that would replace those with multiple warheads, which he regards as more destabilizing because they invite a pre-emptive strike. Scowcroft sketched this vision eight years ago as chairman of President Reagan's Commission on Strategic Forces, and he is now seeing it become reality. Said one Administration official of Bush's announcement: "This is the unwritten appendix to the Scowcroft commission...
National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, who had been pushing "de- MIRVing" for years, persuaded Bush to go the State Department one better and propose a ban on all MIRVed ICBMs, stationary as well as mobile. Scowcroft sold Bush on the idea, but Defense Secretary Dick Cheney objected so strenuously that the plan was dropped...
Last fall, Vince Welnick joined The Grateful Dead as its regular keyboardist after Brent Mydland, who had been with the band for 10 years, died of a heroin overdose. At the time, he was faced with the daunting task of learning over 100 songs before The Dead's annual fall tour...
Before going that far, a team that included National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and chief of staff John Sununu waged a last-minute telephone campaign out of Scowcroft's offices that went on into the evening of Sept. 11. They were trying both to seek a compromise and to take the measure of the Israel lobby's pre-emptive strike. The next morning Bush made a final pitch in the Oval Office to Mayer Mitchell, a leader of the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the largest pro-Israeli lobby. When Mitchell proved to be noncommittal, Bush decided to move...
...baby tapes are the creation of Seattle developmental psychologist Brent Logan, founder of Prelearning, Inc., a prenatal-education research institute. "This is not a yuppie toy," says its inventor. "We have barely literate families who are using the tapes." To date, 1,200 children -- the oldest of whom is now four -- have "listened" to the recordings. Last year 50 of the youngsters, ranging in age from six months to 34 months, were given standardized language, social and motor-skills tests. Their overall score was 25% above the national norm...