Word: expansionism
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Under the overall ceiling of 2,250, SALT II places a subceiling of 1,320 on those weapons regarded as the most destabilizing to the strategic balance (see chart following page). These mainly are the multiwarheads known as MIRVs, the acronym for multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles. By enabling...
Already cable TV reaches about a fifth of the national television audience: 14.5 million out of roughly 73 million households that have one or more sets. The numbers are growing so rapidly that Young and Rubicam, the ad agency, predicts that almost one of three TV households will be on...
All this growth and change, reports TIME Correspondent Mary Cronin, is symptomatic of a major development in U.S. television: cable is at last taking off. After several false starts, it is poised for the rapid, nationwide expansion that regular television achieved three decades ago. As Russell Karp, president and chief...
SALT thereby sets equal limits on quantitative expansion of the nuclear arms race. It allows both the Soviets and Americans to be on an equal numerical basis, albeit with some very different nuclear systems. It does not in any sense allow either side any important measure of superiority.
But, as Miller notes, consumer spending, the key propellant in the economic expansion, seems to be waning. Americans are up to their credit cards in debt, with installment and mortgage payments taking 23% of their disposable income, up a full three points since 1975. At the same time, soaring prices...