Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Model Housewife Pat Kramer has this itty-bitty problem. She is shrinking. Perhaps because of prolonged exposure to hundreds of household chemicals, Pat is growing smaller day by day-even as she continues to shop for the family groceries, scour bathtub rings and battle waxy buildup. "She's the kind of person who is going to make the best of it," explains Comedian Lily Tomlin, who plays Kramer in The Incredible Shrinking Woman, a film due for release in January. The sets, says Tomlin, include "a life-size kitchen, one for when I am 3-ft. tall, a huge...
Carter rightly calls Reagan naive for thinking the Soviets can be intimidated into accepting deep cuts in their existing arsenal by the threat of a future U.S. buildup. But were it not for Carter's own similar naiveté four years ago, SALT II would almost certainly have been signed-and ratified-early in his Administration, long before its passage was "linked" to Soviet behavior in Cuba and Afghanistan. Such linkage was always dubious, since SALT benefits both sides...
...unable to for the past four years. That too has been part of his learning experience. He admits being caught off guard by inflation, though a Governor who was in office during the 1973 oil embargo and who uses OPEC as his scapegoat should not have been. "This enormous buildup in oil prices has driven inflation high and interest rates high all over the world," Carter told a town meeting in Nashville. "Had I known ahead of time that would happen, I would have put much more emphasis the first couple of years on controlling inflation than...
...repeatedly cites his commitment to arms control and Reagan's opposition to the SALT pact as the most significant issue on which they differ in this election. Carter's position is clearly more realistic because SALT II promises at least a modest cap on the Soviet arms buildup and Reagan has not satisfactorily explained why the Soviets would accept the deep cuts he wants any more than those proposed by Carter...
...Viet Nam War, America was in no mood for major increases in defense spending until quite recently, perhaps 18 months ago, by which time the Carter Administration was backing bigger Pentagon budgets. Says Brown: "It's one thing for a voice in the wilderness to be proclaiming a buildup. It's another to create a political consensus. That takes time...