Word: buildups
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While the President continued his remarkable recovery, another victim of the assassination attempt suffered a setback. White House Press Secretary James Brady, who had been recuperating smoothly from a bullet wound in the head, suddenly turned groggy last week; doctors discovered that a buildup of air was pressuring his damaged brain. Dr. Arthur Kobrine first drained the air and then, in an operation that lasted 5½ hours, found the source of the leak-a hole in the membrane covering the brain near the sinuses-and patched it with muscle tissue from Brady's temple. By week...
...anywhere else, to foreclose indefinitely any improvement in East-West relations. Some of the more hawkish members of the Administration, particularly at the Pentagon and National Security Council, want to keep arms control on the back burner with the heat turned low, while they concentrate on a unilateral arms buildup and other measures to combat Soviet power. Whether there is strong domestic political support for such a policy remains to be seen. Some of the Administration's own polling indicates that the public wants firm defense; but there is also broad support for arms control, and there seems...
These are some of the increasingly frequent signs of the growing boom in America's defense industry, as contractors await a sales bonanza from the Reagan Administration's military buildup. The sums of money involved are immense. The President wants to boost the Pentagon's budget from the $171.2 billion allocated by the Carter Administration this year to $226.3 billion in fiscal year 1982. That amount is twice as much as Saudi Arabia earned from crude oil exports last year and twice the gross national product of Switzerland. Moreover by 1986 Reagan wants to increase the defense...
...biggest share of the new military orders will go to the giant aerospace and shipbuilding companies. Some of the major gainers from the Reagan buildup...
Economists generally agree that the Reagan defense buildup should not necessarily cause more inflation. Says Joseph Pechman, director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution: "Defense spending does not automatically add to inflationary pressures. Buying a weapons system is not economically different from buying a dam or paying somebody to teach on an Indian reservation." But after the Viet Nam experience, skeptics will be watching closely for any signs of added inflation from the new military buildup. -By Alexander Taylor...