Word: controls
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...tires of Western defense and diplomacy, George Bush last week finally climbed into the driver's seat. The reason for the President's triumph at the NATO summit was simple. His new proposal on conventional forces restored a degree of credibility and seriousness to the American conduct of arms control that has been missing for a decade -- and that is a crucial ingredient in the leadership of the Western alliance, especially in the age of Gorbachev...
Reagan's impatience with pacts and parleys was rooted in his distaste for the balance of terror that arms control helps preserve and fine-tune. Whether he was fantasizing about a perfect space-based defense or the abolition of ballistic missiles, he was implicitly repudiating the system of deterrence that had kept the nuclear peace for 40 years. No wonder Mikhail Gorbachev looked so good. He took gimmicky American proposals, put his own spin on them, made them the basis of progress -- and then bowed to the ensuing applause. Reagan had his own curtain calls too. It was part...
...Bush Administration also believed too much in what has become conventional wisdom, even among moderates: arms control is only one item on the larger agenda; the U.S. must simultaneously press the Kremlin on human rights and regional conflicts. All true. But arms control has always had a special role. In good times and bad, it keeps the superpowers talking about their one supreme mutual interest, the avoidance of war. Whichever side seems more engaged in that process is going to have an advantage on other issues and with other countries...
What are Vellucci's concerns? He says his primary goal is to protect his working class constituents. That means protecting neighborhoods from big developers--including Harvard--and upholding rent control. The only city councillor still serving who voted for the city rent control ordinance in 1969, Vellucci describes himself as thearchitect of the system...
Critics quickly pointed out that Pons and Fleischmann never used a control experiment, although controls are standard scientific practices expected even of first-year chemistry students. Without a control experiment, it was impossible to tell for sure if the heat generated in the experiment came from fusion or from a previously unknown chemical reaction...