Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expect Congress to approve the budget in anything like its present form. They hope they can hold the Republican-controlled Senate in line and force the Democrat-dominated House to propose such unpopular alternatives as canceling tax cuts, freezing Social Security benefits or slowing the military-spending buildup. Not only might such positions be risky in an election year, but the President could also blame Democrats for any resulting budget deadlock. The White House also hopes that the economy will revive enough by late summer to give its budget a lift and help prepare the party for the November elections...
...least outwardly confident that he had chosen the wisest course, and he planned to make more forays into the countryside, convinced that he could win over the American people. He told his trio of Republican congressional leaders that he would not yield on his tax cuts or his military buildup. That seemed to rule out any possible acceptance of the main alternative suggested so far: a plan by South Carolina's Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings, the top minority member of the Senate Budget Committee, to place a freeze on most federal spending programs in 1983 and cancel...
...typically irascible testimony before Congress's Joint Economic Committee, Rickover attacked the Defense Department: "They will always protect private industry because that's where they came from and that's where they're going back to." In addition, he criticized Reagan's proposed military buildup: "I think we are spending too much. We should be more selective...
...project, which when completed (current target: late 1984) will pump more than 40 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Western Europe, will only increase European dependence on Moscow. What is worse, say U.S. officials, the deal will ultimately provide the Soviets with hard currency to continue their arms buildup. Even the British lack enthusiasm for economic sanctions, though Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government a week ago announced restrictions on Soviet and Polish diplomats, reduced landing rights for the Polish national airline, LOT, and imposed tougher standards for technology transfer to East bloc countries. As one senior British...
...shattering of the American dream makes many Americans ripe for ultra-nationalism. Economic crises usually bring extreme political polarization as individuals are desperate to find a way out of the mass in which they find themselves and their country. We can not let a major plank of the war buildup ride through uncontested and hope people conclude that militarism is not right. Again, this is why fighting the draft now, explaining the essence of U.S. foreign policy, and pointing out the causes of poverty are the best ways to achieve true democracy, peace and equality...