Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...photographs and clandestine reports have flowed across his desk every morning, convincing this President that a revolution in the Caribbean has been coaxed and fed by Moscow and Havana. The CIA gave the world a glimpse of that evidence last week. But documentation of a big military buildup in Nicaragua is only one fragment of the indoctrination the President has received in superpower chess...
...full-page newspaper advertisement from Tenneco Inc. brimmed with pride. As its contribution to the Reagan Administration's arms buildup, the company announced that it had delivered not one but two potent new neclear-powered warships to the U.S. Navy in a single day: the 93,000-ton aircraft carrier Carl Vinson and the 6,900-ton attack submarine Atlanta. Proclaimed the ads' headline: MISTER PRESIDENT, WE HAVE BEGUN...
...major military contractors, the buildup will prove a bonanza. Many of them have excess factory capacity brought on by the recession, and they are already revving up unused production lines. Boeing, for example, which has been hard hit by the slump in domestic aviation, is at work on the cruise missile...
...anywhere near proposed levels will eventually create crippling bottlenecks at key choke points in private industry, reignite inflation and ultimately thwart the productivity surge that is essential for stable economic growth. Says Michael Evans, a Washington-based economist: "Until recently I assumed the economy could easily handle the buildup because of unused industrial capacity. Now I'm convinced there's going to be trouble if it goes through as proposed...
...greatest pressure in all likelihood will fall on precisely those industries (military aerospace, microelectronics) that are already running near capacity. Later in the decade, as the buildup moves into high gear, the resulting resources squeeze could cause severe shortages of everything from strategic materials such as titanium and graphite to sophisticated specialty machinery and, especially, skilled manpower...