Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration's START proposal would require drastic and immediate cuts in Soviet forces and is unacceptable to the Kremlin for that reason. Therefore, the Soviets argue, the U.S. will have only itself to blame if the ABM treaty collapses and a race to develop defensive superweapons begins in earnest...
...town meeting began exactly at 8 p.m. in the dimly lighted white clapboard auditorium overlooking Port Stanley's harbor. In the chair was Councilor Terry Peck, 45, an earnest, stocky plumber and former police chief who dutifully jotted notes on the proceedings. But the residents of the tiny capital (pop. 1,050) of the Falkland Islands were not getting together simply to discuss the local issues that bedevil most small communities. One man asked when the town gym, which is now occupied by British soldiers, would be open to the public again. Another grumbled about the military trucks that...
Pipelines and some big utilities also fear deregulation because it would raise the price that they pay for old gas. The pipelines, for example, would be squeezed if they could not pass along any cost increases from renegotiated contracts with producers. Says Jack Earnest, senior vice president of Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., consumers large pipeline-operating firm: "I guess they figured that the consumers could get on one side, the producers on the other, and they'd both just beat...
...flat, earnest voice, aiming his pointer at charts and graphs projected on a small screen, Spinney explained how the costs of high-technology weapons inexorably race out of control. "There is a systematic tendency to underestimate future costs," he said. "Deepseated structural problems need to be addressed." Within the building where he has worked for ten years, Spinney noted, "everybody is fighting to save their programs." His words often lapsed into Pentagon jargon, but his point was clear: "Planners become desensitized to cost growth over time...
...what of the earnest arms control specialist watching the Senate trials and tribulatioins of this administration's pick for the Geneva table-a man who has publicly belittled the worth of arms negotiation...