Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indicated a willingness to amend the ABM treaty to tighten some of its imprecisions and extend the period of notice each side would have to give before withdrawing from the treaty. This willingness to dicker with Moscow over the ABM treaty is being interpreted as a sweetener, a hint to the Soviets that the U.S. may be prepared to agree later to a longterm restriction of SDI. So it may be. But the fact remains that the U.S. is still playing hard to get on SDI. The Administration had long since reaffirmed a policy of abiding by the ABM treaty...
Claiming that its exclusive fishing rights extend 200 miles offshore, Kiribati, along with a dozen other small Pacific nations, wants U.S. fishing interests to pay it $20 million a year to catch tuna off their shores. U.S. companies refused to fork over, but the Soviet Union agreed to pay $1.7 million to fish off Kiribati...
...studies, shunned sports and dating, and graduated in the top fifth of his class. After more than 20 years as an electrical engineer, the restless Rickover in 1946 was posted to Oak Ridge, Tenn., where research was under way % on atomic reactors. Rickover believed the Navy could extend its reach and free itself of the need to refuel ships if nuclear power plants could be squeezed into submarines' tiny hulls. Rickover's work eventually spawned not only the first nuclear-powered sub, the Nautilus, launched in January 1955, but the first civilian nuclear power reactor, at Shippingport, Pa. Today more...
...center of the debate has been the drive to extend the economic revolution from the countryside to the cities. Moves like the sudden dropping of price controls have put unwelcome stress on household budgets. Food prices soared by a previously unheard-of 30% last year, and the overall inflation rate jumped to 9%. Meanwhile, opportunities for increased wealth have created fertile ground for corruption. Bureaucrats have taken kickbacks from enterprises in return for supplying them goods at subsidized prices. The products are then resold on the open market for hefty profits. Other officials have installed family members in businesses that...
Experts said the elimination of Gramm-Rudman's automatic budget cuts will complicate and extend Congressional debate over the budget this year by forcing Congress to make political decisions about their spending priorities. Harvard officials, who lobbied against Gramm-Rudman since a bill was introduced in Congress this fall, celebrated the ruling as beneficial for higher education...