Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lighter moment, Defense Secretary Weinberger began by noting that he would much prefer to have an uncontroversial job like director of the National Gallery of Art. But he went on to defend the Administration's military buildup as well as the controversial Star Wars plan. Later, Senators Joseph Biden, Gary Hart, William Cohen and Nancy Kassebaum gave a bipartisan critique of the Administration's defense and foreign policies, amid some jovial byplay between Hart and Biden on the approaching 1988 presidential campaign. After a vigorous exchange on policy, several of the visitors expressed surprise at how prominent an issue defense...
...which Government leaders develop such a strategic, political and emotional commitment that they keep pouring money into it regardless of what the research shows. That mind-set could be disastrous. It might, for example, lead to premature tests that could provoke the already worried Soviets into an accelerated buildup of offensive and defensive arms--even if the tests failed...
Pentagon visionaries, rarely idle, are especially busy these days dreaming up such futuristic tools of war. Research and development has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Reagan defense buildup: the Administration has nearly doubled military R. and D. spending since 1981, and seeks another 22% hike, to $39.4 billion, for 1986. That is more than 10% of overall defense spending, twice the federal budget for civilian research, and enough to fund Medicaid for two years...
...holding only domestically-chartered savings and loan stock. Everything from stock in companies which deal with the Soviet Union. Chile, EI Salvador, and Iran (among many others), or make nuclear and other response, to U.S. Government securities issued in the last five years (which largely financed the military buildup), would have to go. This isolationism ad absurdam would serve no purpose whatsoever other than to provide a moral salve to distant and insulated Harvard students and faculty members...
...State of the Union message was in many ways a restatement of his second Inaugural Address, only delivered with more polish. The President in effect used the prime-time opportunity to give the hard sell to his major programs: tax reform without revenue increases, a continuation of the military buildup in tandem with arms-control talks and a determination to proceed with the controversial Star Wars antimissile defense. If there was any moderately fresh emphasis, it was on reaching out to minorities and the poor, albeit on the terms that the President has always advocated: that economic growth...