Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chirp insistently when they are running down. Smoke sleuths can be used in conjunction with heat detectors (cost: $100 plus for a complete system). Heat detectors are slower to sound a smoke alarm and are used mainly in closed areas such as basements and garages, where a quick heat buildup is likely. Says Fire Marshall Rex Jordon of Olympia, Wash.: "Heat 36 detectors are fine if you want to spend the money. But if you're on a limited income, I would recommend just a smoke detector." The reason: most fire victims die from asphyxiation, not burns...
...America. Europeans are worried by his on-again, off-again statements about pulling some U.S. troops out of the Continent. Not only must he assure a skeptical Europe that he is firmly committed to NATO, but he must also work to strengthen the alliance against the continuing and ominous buildup of Soviet bloc forces. Far more important, he has to face a Western Europe racked by economic problems and political unrest, with the left rising fast...
...SOVIET ARMS BUILDUP. I suspect that bureaucratic, historical and service drives exist there too. It may be that those drives are creating this [build-up]. I think we should in every case look for possibilities for improving our own security by arms limitation discussions and agreements. But I think it would be a mistake for us to say that is all we should do. We and our NATO allies should pull up our socks and see whether by more efficient approaches, we can increase our own conventional strength...
...Democrats' "shadow cabinet" during Nixon-Ford era . . . Senior fellow of Brookings Institution, Washington's liberal think tank, since 1969; also economics professor at University of Maryland, where he earned his Ph.D. . . . As Lyndon Johnson's budget director during years of Great Society and Viet Nam buildup, was one of earliest important advocates in Government of the new politics and economics of austerity . . . Argued that new programs should not be launched without careful forecasting of the economy's "fiscal dividend"-the difference between expected future growth in Government income and built-in raises in federal spending . . . Rapped...
...What does the Israeli buildup on Lebanon's southern frontier mean...