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That is at least partly a result of his Star Wars initiative, which has caused the Soviets deep concern. But if he now totally refuses to budge on Star Wars, the President runs the risk of touching off the costliest surge yet in the arms race. Without some accord on space weapons, the superpowers could get caught in what is known as an offense-defense spiral: each side proliferates offenses to penetrate the other's new or improved defenses, and adds defenses to protect itself against the other's increasingly sophisticated offenses. That is the classic formula for strategic instability...
...nearly three decades, Detroit has been the scene of one of the costliest and hardest-fought newspaper rivalries in the U.S. In a battle for dominance of the sixth largest market in the nation, the powerful Knight-Ridder Newspapers Inc. has spent an estimated $23 million since 1979 to cover losses at the morning Detroit Free Press (circ. 646,476). The smaller, family-run Evening News Association, which owns the all-day Detroit News (circ. 666,949), has paid even more. It allegedly used revenues from five television and two radio stations to offset an estimated $41.5 million in losses...
...York City with about 65% of the vote, Republican William Green, 55, a three-term incumbent, still managed to win in the so-called Silk Stocking District. Green and his challenger, Democrat Andrew Stein, 39, the Manhattan borough president, spent a total of $1,784,775, making theirs the costliest House race in the nation...
...costliest flaw in the system has been the absence of incentives. Industrial workers are virtually guaranteed employment for life. More than that, rewarding merit is considered dangerously unsocialist. When the government allocated money for merit bonuses five years ago, most managers chose to hand out across the-board wage hikes to hard worker and laggard alike...
...National Security Adviser said he had no recollection of Westmoreland's having offered misleadingly hopeful "good news." The exchange was subdued but freighted with drama. This was no memoir, no scholarly retrospective. It was the first testimony, by one of the architects of America's longest and costliest war, in what may prove to be the most celebrated libel case in U.S. history: Westmoreland's $120 million suit against CBS News. After almost three years of crossfire in the court of public opinion, the battle is under way in a court...