Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tests, Schlesinger does not expect Russia to finish development of MIRV technology before 1976?and, more important, does not expect the Soviets to match U.S. inventory before the mid-1980s. Still, the tests were a disquieting sign that the relentless Soviet momentum in weapons research is closing the technology gap...
...Research Gap. To high-ranking officers like Moorer, U.S. military power "has clearly peaked and is now declining." Arms Control Expert Donald G. Brennan of the Hudson Institute fears that if the purse strings are not loosened, the Soviet Union "will pull ahead both in terms of strategic and conventional forces." Both to maintain the strength necessary to make detente work and to protect itself, the U.S. cannot wait for that to happen before acting. New weapons take five to ten years to reach production. General George S. Brown, head of the Air Force Systems Command, points out that...
...taking care of the elderly once they are ill, but the seven-year-old program provides little in the way of regular preventive care. A 67-bed community hospital in Prosser (pop. 3,000), in southeastern Washington, has come up with a unique service to fill this gap. It provides those over 65 with monthly checkups at a bargain-basement price of only $6 per year...
Partly to narrow the gap between affluence and poverty in the U.S., the nation has long had a progressive income tax and public programs to help lift those on the bottom of the economic ladder. Yet in its annual report last week the Council of Economic Advisers came to a surprising conclusion: the income differences between affluent and poor Americans yawned as wide in 1972 as they...
John Donovan, assistant executive director of the Cambridge Housing Authority said that future Cambridge housing projects will stress family units. "When the MIT project was being planned in 1968, the greatest need was for elderly housing. The MIT project has helped fill the gap...