Word: excessive
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Last week a GAO report declared that the admiral's numbers were essentially on target. Not even the contractors seriously disputed his statistics. The GAO's only quibble was that it could not flatly call the profits "excessive" because "there are no generally accepted criteria as to what constitutes excess profits." The four in stances cited by Rickover and verified...
...Soviets have supplied Syria with about 100 fighter aircraft to replace those lost in dogfights over the Bekaa Valley. The bulk of the new aircraft are advanced MiG-23s. Some 300 to 400 T-62 and T-72 tanks have been added to the Syrian arsenal, well in excess of the number of older and smaller T-54s and T-55s lost in Lebanon. The Soviets have also provided about 200 armored personnel carriers, and between 600 and 800 trucks and other wheeled vehicles, considerably improving the mobility of Syrian forces...
...What would happen to excess SS-20s, all mobile, now deployed in the European part of the Soviet Union if reductions were agreed upon? The Soviets have reserved the option of moving the extra missiles to Asia. The U.S., at minimum, would probably insist that they be dismantled and destroyed, so that the missiles could not be moved back to Europe in a crisis...
Part of the Administration's difficulty in effectively countering the complex problems in Central America is that its policies have often been obscured by an excess of anti-Soviet rhetoric. This has provoked mistrust and opposition in the U.S., among West European allies and in Latin America. Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig set the tone shortly after Reagan's Inauguration by vowing to "draw the line" against Soviet expansionism at El Salvador. Since then, Administration officials have periodically flogged the Red Menace, sometimes with unhappy results. The most notable diplomatic debacle occurred when the Administration promised to produce...
...SLBMs), which could be verified by spy satellites. But it is also seeking an "inventory limit" on undeployed missiles, a measure that could be verified only by comprehensive on-site inspection, and even then there would be some question about whether the U.S. could know exactly how many excess rockets or warheads the Soviets...