Word: cutback
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Some experts do not believe the projected cutback is good enough. Says Rowland: "The Montreal agreement simply isn't sufficient to protect the ozone. We should have signed a treaty that reduced CFC production by 95% -- not 50%." Nonetheless, the Environmental Protection Agency has calculated that without the accord, a staggering 131 million additional cases of skin cancer would occur among people born before...
Nothing would revive the President's leadership more solidly than reaching agreement with the Soviet Union on a sweeping reduction in intermediate-range nuclear missiles. This would raise the remote possibility of a cutback in strategic missiles, whose numbers have continued to grow, albeit at a slower rate, under past treaties. However he may be diminished by his Iran-contra adventure, Ronald Reagan is unlikely to go down in history as a mere potted plant. In his final 16 months as President, he may yet carve out a more elevated niche...
...vast superiority in short-range weapons, which are sited in East Germany and Czechoslovakia and can hit targets over distances of up to 600 miles, the initial West European reaction to the Soviet statement was decidedly cool. Last week Gorbachev said Moscow was also ready to discuss a cutback in short-range weapons. The offer was obviously made in preparation for this week's visit to Moscow by U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, and President Reagan later praised the Soviets' "new seriousness" on arms control...
...Reagan, called for raises as high as 74% for Senators and Congressmen, probably well beyond the level of public tolerance. Unfortunately, the slimmed-down proposals gutted pay increases that would have helped stop talent from seeping out of the federal judicial system. Many judges feel betrayed by the cutback in their expected raises...
Aquino may have more success with the constitution. The 118-page charter, written by an Aquino-appointed committee, calls for a referendum on renewing the leases of U.S. military bases, a cutback in presidential powers and the establishment of a two-chamber congress. Aquino says the document is "worthy of the great collective act that made it possible: the rising of the Filipino people to vindicate their voice...