Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Reagan pledged yesterday to "keep right on marching" toward further arms agreements after next week's expected treaty signing, but he said the United States must not be lulled into a new period of detente allowing a secret Soviet military buildup...
Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board focused on the buildup of ice on the plane's wings while it waited 23 minutes between deicing and takeoff. Another possible factor: pilot inexperience. Copilot Lee Bruecher, 26, who was apparently at the craft's controls on takeoff, had only 36 1/2 hours of flight time on DC-9s. The veteran pilot, Captain Frank Zvonek, 43, had logged only 33 hours as a DC-9 captain...
What crashed was more than just the market. It was the Reagan Illusion: the idea that there could be a defense buildup and tax cuts without a price, that the country could live beyond its means indefinitely. The initial Reagan years, with their aura of tinseled optimism, had restored the nation's tattered pride and the lost sense that leadership was possible in the presidency. But he stayed a term too long. As he shouted befuddled Hooverisms over the roar of his helicopter last week or doddered precariously through his press conference, Reagan appeared embarrassingly irrelevant to a reality that...
...campaign promises about reining in the Government. During the Administration's first term, total federal spending jumped 26%, to $852 billion in fiscal 1984. The biggest item was defense, reflecting the President's view that the military had suffered a decade of neglect in the 1970s. Reagan's buildup cost $1.2 trillion over the fiscal years 1981-'86, which boosted military spending 41% after adjustment for inflation. Among the new hardware: the B-1B bomber (cost: $280 billion) and the MX missile system ($20.7 billion for the first 50). The Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars, research and development...
...alarming surge of the budget deficits through the $200 billion mark seems finally to be forcing some budget progress. The Administration agreed in 1985 to a freeze in the defense buildup, and that has held increases in military outlays below the level of inflation. During the same year, Congress passed the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction bill, designed to impose automatic spending reductions if the Administration and legislators failed to meet targets for cutbacks. But the Supreme Court found a crucial part of the law unconstitutional. By the time a revised version was passed in September, Congress had reduced the size...