Word: deterent
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...says, has the power to destroy the Soviet Union several times over?and vice versa; adding to the number of American missiles would be futile. An enemy can be killed only once, his reasoning goes. He believes the U.S. needs only a "sufficiency" of arms to deter the Soviets, not a superiority, and that sufficiency already exists...
...delayed. The male-female ratio of approximately 3:1 in the Yard, and the total absence of women in the Union dorms, makes freshman social life, at best, disheartening. Grouping of freshman in the Quad would add a sense of physical detachment to the existing social isolation, and further deter freshman assimilation...
...MISSILES. When it comes to missiles, there are two different emphases. One is a weapon in case of war, and the other is a weapon to deter war. The Pershing is in the second category. The Russians have equipped three Arab nations, Syria, Egypt and Libya, with two types of ground-to-ground missiles: the short-range Frog and the medium-range Scud. The Lance is like the Frog, and the Pershing is like the Scud. In the overall considerations of how to avoid war, a balance of missilery can help. I look at the Pershing as a component...
STRATEGIC BALANCES. The scales are even. I believe the Israeli army is still better motivated and trained [than the Arab forces]. If it has the same generation of technology as the Arabs, it will be able both to deter and to cope...
...days for the Red Sox and great days for baseball, both of which people are afraid to admit may be waning. And Lynn himself, and all-American nothing-too-flashy, cocky but thrilled-to-be here folks golden boy for so the press likes to portray), does little to deter these flights of fancy. Hell, he's an old-fashioned talent, graceful as a gazelle, and when he swings the bat your heart leaps out of your chest. Thank God he's white...