Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goes. In 1974, embezzlement cost the country three billion dollars, an amount equal to all the money and stolen property on the FBI Index Property Crimes for the same year (these include burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft). But there were only 13,000 arrests for embezzlement that year, compared with 1.7 million arrests for the "crimes of the poor...
...called "asymmetrical" reductions, where the Soviets would have to give up more troops than NATO because Western estimates say they have more. This point is clouded by the fact that, since the Russians claim parity anyway, reducing to the agreed-upon limit of 700,000 soldiers would require equal--and small--reductions. The East is essentially dodging this entire issue by denying Western estimates...
Indeed, if the West can persuade the Soviets that troop reduction is in their interest, then all European security questions would become simpler. Gains for the West are obvious: reduced cost for equal security, greater assurance against attack, and a simple slacking of military tension during peacetime. And for the East the gains from an MBFR agreement would be tangible as well: a reduction in cost and tension and a lessening of the American presence in Europe, something that Russia has wanted for a long time...
...years ago, which is to say, about four score--and yet who knows, with the new math--our fathers--and I hasten to say our mothers, too, because I am, and have always been, a strong supporter of the ERA, which as you know refers to the Equal Rights Amendment in the Congress, very hard. I might add, our fathers--and among them, I include my own 95-year-old father, who came to the shores of this great nation from his native Sweden, yearning for the new life America promised; our father brought forth upon this continent, from east...
...University has a responsibility to protect its faculty, staff, and students. It could go a long way toward that end by picking a new police chief equal to his predecessor...