Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks, causing the earth's temperature to plummet. The mystery of his disappearance has been compounded by the suspicions of some Western scientists that the nuclear winter scenario was promoted by Moscow to give antinuclear groups in the U.S. and Europe some fresh ammunition against America's arms buildup. Conspiracy theorists speculate that Alexandrov was planning to renounce the nuclear winter concept and may have been kidnaped by the KGB. According to another theory, the physicist defected to the West. In any case, a delegation of Soviet scientists skipped an annual conference in Sicily this summer, giving neither an explanation...
...occasionally stomach turning. At times the rescuers had to cut through human corpses to reach the living. Doctors worked for hours in narrow tunnels to amputate limbs before victims could be lifted to safety. The physicians had to operate carefully to avoid so-called crush syndrome, the slow buildup of toxins in the damaged limbs of trapped victims. Without proper treatment, like the intravenous infusion of liquids even before people were freed from the rubble, the condition could result in the death of survivors through kidney failure...
...limitations on the deployment and, perhaps, testing of defensive systems, though not on research, in return for cuts in the numbers of missiles and warheads. Although Reagan has ruled out using SDI as a bargaining chip, such a deal has an ap-pealing logic: it was the Soviet offensive buildup, after all, that prompted Star Wars in the first place...
...have been adroit. Over the Easter weekend, Gorbachev proposed that the Soviet Union and the U.S. immediately stop deployment of intermediate- range nuclear weapons in Europe. The ploy was too transparent to work. The Soviets had essentially completed their missile buildup, and the U.S. was in the midst of countervailing emplacements; a freeze would have left the U.S.S.R. with a huge lead in warheads. Even the Dutch government, which earlier had waffled on accepting American missiles, turned down the idea...
Given the buildup, the televised picking of the winning numbers could only have been a trifle anticlimactic. When a machine built of suction tubes and a transparent box full of numbered plastic balls picked the winning combination --14, 17, 22, 23, 30, 47--nothing happened to almost the entire audience except the abrupt popping of their balloons. The holders of the three winning tickets could not be identified for several days...