Word: delayer
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Some of the delay has been due to the unique nature of the talks. Reports TIME Pentagon Correspondent Don Sider, who was at Geneva: "SALT is the most complex, confounding piece of technical negotiation attempted by man. It comprises an almost endless combination of methods of destruction. They have to be defined and conceptualized before negotiators can even start looking for formulas to restrict them. Only a handful of specialists claim to be experts, and most confess that they are frequently startled to learn what they do not know." The talks have also been slowed for political reasons, like...
Wishful thinking. Gromyko had to delay his departure, the special press briefing was not called, and Washington and Moscow never issued their synchronized statements. Instead, Vance and Gromyko faced dozens of reporters and cameramen on the patio in front of the U.S. mission and admitted that success had eluded them again. Said Gromyko: "A lot of work has indeed been done, but there is still some work to be done." Explained Vance: "We will continue to work on those questions ... through our regular diplomatic channels...
There are two main theories. The first argues that Brezhnev has been much more upset and angered by the pace of U.S. normalization of relations with Peking than the White House expected-or revealed. As a result, Brezhnev slowed down SALT in order to delay his summit with Carter. According to this argument, the ailing Soviet leader fears that if he visits the U.S. in mid-January, he risks being overshadowed and forgotten in the excitement over the visit of China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao...
...Kremlin, of course, subscribes to neither interpretation. In an angry commentary last week, Tass charged that "the causes of the delay should be looked for in the U.S., which has deviated from the coordinated principles of holding SALT talks." It accused Washington of, among other things, seeking "supremacy in strategic armaments, thus obtaining unilateral advantages...
...precipitating a fiscal crisis and ignoring the struggling elderly. Even if the market stays strong, some people are bound to retire and cash out their holdings in a bear market (historically, nearly one out of every four years has showed negative stock returns). This could force some people to delay their retirement until stock prices improve. And regardless of how the market performs, the price of establishing and operating more than 150 million private investment accounts could be huge: one study shows administrative costs could eat up more than 20 percent of invested money...