Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moving quickly to nip the budding talk of returning to Reagan's hawkish days, Defense Secretary William Perry today rejected calls for reviving a "Star Wars" missile defense system. Perry told reporters that there's no current threat justifying that kind of costly buildup. Should a reason for it materialize, Perry said, the Pentagon is prepared to meet the threat. Perry also disclosed that the Clinton Administration plans to move forward with an "aggressive" schedule for sea-based and ground-based anti-missile defense systems -- not a huge effort that could lead to deployment of a continental missile defense system...
Saddam Hussein's recent buildup of troops along the Kuwaiti border presents no imminent threat to American security, Harvard students and professors said yesterday...
Polanski has adeptly managed to sharpen the pace and buildup of mystery in this slightly convoluted detective thriller. Set in Southern California in the mid-1930s, the film seethes with human greed, political corruption and family scandal, so that it seems that even the land surrounding Los Angeles is tainted...
...others, is that doctors do not get enough training in geriatrics. Over the past several years, researchers have documented that tranquilizers such as Valium and Seconal linger an exceptionally long time in older people's bodies because their kidneys and livers work slowly at eliminating the drugs. The buildup can lead to confusion and memory loss. Unfortunately, those symptoms may be dismissed as signs of aging rather than of drug...
...federal guidelines recommend less aggressive early treatment for children with inner-ear fluid buildup, as the condition often clears up without any treatment...