Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also urged the Soviet Union to cease an alleged buildup of intelligence gathering in Britain, saying that was an area excluded from the general improvement in relations between the countries...
...launched immediately for all these sites, many more are in urgent need of attention. In the tomb of Seti I, dating from about 1300 B.C., paintings and reliefs are falling off the walls and ceilings. At the Greco-Roman Temple of Sobek and Horus at Kom Ombo, salt buildup has eroded reliefs and inscriptions carved into the temple's walls and pillars. Even in the Temple of Horus at Edfu (3rd century B.C. to 2nd century B.C.), one of the best-preserved temples, inscriptions are endangered by dampness...
...Soviet Union, the story is different. The USSR's smaller economy has been unable to support both a military buildup and a high standard of living. Although the Soviets devoted up to twice as much of their (smaller) GNP to the conventional and nuclear arms race, the U.S. could match this expenditure and still have enough "spare GNP" for toasters, cars, VCRs and CD players...
...course the only way for the Soviets to maintain their military buildup at the expense of their own peoples standard of living was to erect a totalitarian system. This system ultimately wasted more precious Soviet resources for the upkeep of a massive and unproductive surveillance state which further debilitated Soviet capacities...
Pushing the relatively weak Russian economy to keep up with the American arms buildup (redoubled in the '80s) and underwrite expansionism has led the Soviet Union into dire straits and the desire to lower the level of the arms race--an option made possible since U.S. policy is committed to the "containment" and not the "rollback" of Communism...