Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first half was a defensive contest as the two squads battled through a scoreless half, but Harvard took control of the game in the second half as Greenberg scored a try to give the Crimson a 4-0 advantage. Liles added two penalty kicks to close out the scoring...
...doctrine. Conventional forces are being reconfigured to become more defensive in deployment. In addition, the Soviets now speak of maintaining a "reasonable sufficiency" in their nuclear and conventional forces rather than attempting to match or surpass the might of the West in every category. As a Soviet arms- control official asked recently, "What do we need a huge tank park in Eastern Europe...
...spared little effort to show their good faith. In the past two years, the government has released more than 100 dissidents from hospitals and carried out several legal and procedural reforms. The new regulations provide that mental patients or their relatives can appeal an involuntary hospitalization in court. Moreover, control of special psychiatric hospitals for the criminally insane has been shifted from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which oversees the police, to the Ministry of Health. And in a break with the Soviets' monolithic tradition, a few articles discussing psychoanalysis have started to appear in periodicals...
...explore Mars, an effort that Moscow has several times invited the U.S. to join. Although Phobos 2 had managed to send back information on the Martian atmosphere, magnetic field and environment, some U.S. analysts believe the mishaps in the $500 million project raise questions about quality assurance and control in Soviet flight preparations. But Frank McDonald, associate director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, warns against using the episode to judge Moscow's competence in space. Says McDonald: "They have demonstrated again and again a very sophisticated capability...
...Gorbachev has outmaneuvered his critics within the party hierarchy. His control of the media means that, even under glasnost, opposition to perestroika gets limited voice. Yet by now it is clear that unless Gorbachev can inspire widespread public support for the reform process -- no sure thing -- his attempt to shake down the old trees will be truncated before it has a chance to grow...