Word: cutback
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With SALT II slicing strategic arsenals only slightly, a significant cutback will have to await SALT III. In the meantime, even more exotic weapons are on their way. In the annual "Arms Control Impact Statements," released last week, the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency hinted alarmingly at future "space wars" between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that would be waged with lasers and particle beam weapons. Whether the SALT process will ever be able to limit these devices is debatable...
...months at a time. This cessation of the cycle, called amenorrhea, occurs in about 45% of women who run over 65 miles a week-as well as in dancers, ice skaters and gymnasts. Many experts link amenorrhea directly to loss of body fat, a result of exercise. A cutback in training, with subsequent weight gain, generally restores the normal cycle...
...this kind of reasoning that prompts the frequently heard complaint from the Navy that it is being unfairly singled out to make good on Carter's campaign promise to hold down defense spending. Indeed, with ships taking six to eight years to construct, the strategic impact of a cutback in building them does not become immediately apparent; the monetary savings...
Harvard's men's tennis team will open up its home season Friday afternoon when it entertains Navy at 2 p.m. The Midshipmen should prove to be feisty competitors because the entire Navy is agitated over President Carter's moves to cutback the fleet. This searing domestic issue should make the team especially aggressive...
There are other problems. The orchestra is about to lose its permanent conductor. Brian Priestman is leaving this year, and there is no replacement in sight. More seriously, the symphony has been through a bitter lockout in which the issue was a big cutback in the number of weeks per season (and therefore...