Word: counts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard men's tennis team has reached the point in its season where, "every team member will count," according to Coach Dave Fish. With one of the season's most important matches coming up this weekend against Yale, two of the Crimson's six top players--Captain Adam Beren and Rob Loud--are out of the singles ranks, and Fish has had to shift his lineup...
...team's 9-0 victory over Columbia Saturday afternoon at the Palmer Dixon courts was a strong indication of the squad's depth Sy Fountaine and Ken Kleinfield, who usually switch in the seventh and eighth spots for the Crimson (matches that don't count in the score), moved into the fifth and sixth spots. Fountaine also played third doubles in Loud's place...
Examples: in addition to the general ceilings unveiled at Eureka, there is now a specific requirement that the Soviets dismantle two-thirds of their cherished heavy ICBMs; an insistence that the Backfire bomber, exempted from SALT II, now count as an intercontinental weapon; and a stipulation that the Soviet Union reduce by 64% the total lifting power, or throw weight, of its missile force. This last was originally a goal for the dimly defined second phase of START. Now it has in effect been moved into the first phase...
...exchange for what they gained at the negotiating table, the Soviets made concessions. In SALT I, they agreed not to count as strategic weapons the European-based nuclear forces of the U.S. and its allies, even though some of those NATO missiles and warplanes could reach the U.S.S.R. Those are some of the weapons that the Soviets are trying to restrict in the INF talks under way in Geneva...
...other end of the spectrum are the Pentagon civilians, who put more faith in fortress America than in the Western alliance and who tend to the view that the U.S. cannot really count on its allies and cannot really do business with the Soviet Union. They see it as self-deluding to think the West can compromise in the military rivalry. While committed to the deterrence of nuclear war, they pride themselves on being hard-headed enough to prepare for the possibility that ultimately this planet may not be big enough for both superpowers...