Word: buildups
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...there has been some environmental progress in individual countries, the state of the world has mostly gone downhill. Air pollution, a major issue in Stockholm, has grown significantly worse in most cities. Even more alarming, it is now overshadowed by broad atmospheric changes, such as ozone depletion and the buildup of greenhouse gases. According to the Washington- based Worldwatch Institute, one of the hundreds of environmental pressure groups advising the Earth Summit negotiators, the world has lost 200 million hectares (500 million acres) of trees since 1972, an area roughly one-third the size of the continental U.S. The world...
...illusion. Its incredibly fast collapse tempts many to believe that the threat was never all that real or serious, and that it proves yesterday's doves to have been right. That view is mistaken. All the evidence confirms that the resistance of the West, including the American arms buildup, was essential to bringing about the collapse of the system so quickly and so totally...
...over a decade, America's poor and politically powerless have lived with Reagan-Bush policies which redirected social spending to a military buildup and which sought to retrain no one for a new world economy...
...defense buildup already under way, aimed at making it too costly for the Soviets to compete militarily with the U.S. Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative -- Star Wars -- became a centerpiece of the strategy...
...chill is spreading across the U.S. as the end of the cold war pushes military contractors into the sharpest cutbacks since World War II. Still reeling from the loss of 200,000 jobs since Ronald Reagan's military buildup peaked in 1987, the industry could lose 500,000 more jobs by 1995. "There's going to be a rapid shrinkage in the next 36 months," says Howard Rubel, who follows defense and aerospace for the C.J. Lawrence securities firm. "Whole divisions are going to vanish. Long-term planning now means 'How are we going to get people out the door...