Word: caps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Blackwill, the negotiations are aimed at reducing both NATO and Warsaw Pact military forces to a "common ceiling" of 700,000 ground troops each. However, this cap would require vastly larger cuts in Soviet-bloc troops, which outnumber NATO troops by several hundred thousand...
...victories were Harvard's most impressive and left the Crimson as a strong favorite to cap its fifth consecutive Ancient Eight crown...
...hallmark of Capital Cities' management style is de-centralization. Says James Burke, 60, chairman of Johnson & Johnson and a director on Capital Cities' board: "Murph's friends say he delegates to the point of abdication." Notes Cary Reich, executive editor of Institutional Investor: "Except for once, nobody from Cap Cities has ever set foot in our offices...
...there may be a way out of the logjam created by the Senate's refusal to accept the President's domestic proposals and Reagan's unwillingness to raise taxes or silence Cap Weinberger's endless pleas for more funds. Experts estimate that the various versions of a tax reform bill which closes loopholes in the current system could bring in as much as a $100 billion, half the current deficit, without increasing tax rates. The tax bills-Bradley/Gephardt for the Democrats, Kemp/Kasten for the Republicans, and the Treasury's as yet unapproved one for the Administration-have added attractiveness...
Reduced Budget Deficit. "The first step," says Peterson, "is to get our budget deficit down on a long-term structural basis." He believes that even a relatively modest first-year cut of about $50 billion would be helpful. If the reductions included freezes and a cap on cost of living increases for programs like Social Security, the moves would send "the kind of signal the financial markets really need to get long-term real interest rates down." Lower rates would make the dollar less attractive to foreign investors...