Word: buildups
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...already begun. During the first five months of 1988, he said, average worldwide temperatures were the highest in the 130 years that records have been kept. Moreover, Hansen continued, he - is 99% certain that the higher temperatures are not just a natural phenomenon but the result of a buildup of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other gases from man- made sources, mainly pollution from power plants and automobiles. Said Hansen: "It is time to stop waffling and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here...
Some analysts doubt that the expected 40-year buildup in the Social Security fund will come to pass. Ben Wattenberg, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, predicts that within the next decade, soaring health- care costs could overwhelm the Government's Medicare fund, which is partly financed by the same payroll taxes that go for Social Security. If that happens, he says, Congress might keep Medicare going with money from the retirement fund. "And when that money has paid for Medicare, who will finance the retirements of the baby-boom generation?" he asks. Welcome to the budget debates...
...theses, as well as the advance buildup for the conference, seem to demonstrate a willingness to open up a byzantine political system. One of the most unusual aspects of the party-conference preparations -- a credit to both glasnost and Gorbachev's adroitness -- is that Soviet citizens have been able to read about delegate fights in the press. Pravda told of a meeting at an 8,000-seat soccer stadium in the west Siberian city of Omsk at which enraged rank-and-file members harangued party bosses because a final delegate list did not include those who had received the most...
Although the Reagan Administration's $2.2 trillion defense buildup has been plagued by cost overruns, phony bills from contractors and gold-plated weapons systems that often do not work, this scandal is different. Rarely, if ever, have such high-ranking Pentagon officials been suspected of graft on so large a scale. And while Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci maintained that the corruption concerned "individuals, not the institution," prosecutors disagreed. "It's going to show that the whole procurement process is a joke," contended a high-ranking investigator. While not claiming that all transactions are fraudulent, he insisted that "there hasn...
...Carlucci, who has been lobbying with a reluctant Congress to sustain the defense buildup, the scandal will make his task more difficult. Nor will it help Vice President George Bush, whose campaign for the Oval Office has already been saddled with the Iran-contra affair, implications of widespread impropriety among Reagan appointees and the investigation of Attorney General Edwin Meese. The Vice President could be further embarrassed by his close association with former Navy Secretary John Lehman. One of the principal targets of the investigation is former Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Engineering and Systems Melvyn Paisley...