Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emergence of a strong and cogent case for drug legalization, even if it is a misguided approach, has pointed out a real and serious fault in current policy. It is heavily unbalanced in favor of ineffective attempts to cut the supply through police action, while neglecting potentially more effective efforts to reduce demand through education and treatment. Says Minneapolis Mayor Donald Fraser: "Personally, I'm not willing to say drugs should be decriminalized. But investing large amounts of money to interdict supply obviously is not working. We've spent over $300,000 in the past few months in police overtime...
...some tricky issues, and it may be there, in those details, that the devil resides. While a fifth Reagan summit with Gorbachev is possible, it may take Michael Dukakis or George Bush to finish the work. But it is impressive work nonetheless. The result would be the first major cut in strategic arsenals since the arms race began 40 years ago. Even more important, the effort could lead to "stabilizing" reductions that could enhance the nuclear peace...
...Soviets seemed to take Kampelman's advice. By the fall they were proposing an overall ceiling on each side of 6,000 "nuclear charges" -- a term that subsumed warheads on ballistic missiles as well as weapons on manned bombers. Karpov said 6,000 would represent roughly an overall 50% cut in strategic forces, since each side would cut from approximately 12,000 weapons. That was something of a magic number for the American side. Shultz told his staff that a START agreement would have to cut in half the most dangerous part of the strategic arsenals to satisfy Reagan...
...cold, left their aides behind and went to a nearby pool house, where a fire had been prepared. Reagan handed Gorbachev a manila envelope containing a Russian translation of a set of "guidelines" that the two leaders might issue to their negotiators. The guidelines called for a 50% cut in strategic offensive forces, and assurances from both sides that "their strategic defense programs shall be conducted as permitted by, and in full compliance with, the ABM treaty...
...political base. He first came to Washington in the early 1950s as a staffer to North Carolina's Senator Willis Smith, but the advice he remembers best came from Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell: "Jesse," he told him, "a Senator who does not know the rules can be cut to ribbons by a Senator who does...