Word: highes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, Bundy said, the United States will spend less on expensive, high technology weapons systems such as the B-1 Stealth Bomber and the proposed space-based missile defense shield known as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), which he said would provide an "admittedly imperfect defense...
...Soviet Union, the story is different. The USSR's smaller economy has been unable to support both a military buildup and a high standard of living. Although the Soviets devoted up to twice as much of their (smaller) GNP to the conventional and nuclear arms race, the U.S. could match this expenditure and still have enough "spare GNP" for toasters, cars, VCRs and CD players...
...opposition by 86% to a change in Israeli law "so as to recognize only those conversions performed by Orthodox rabbis." When last fall's election gave neither Likud nor Labor a clear majority, each considered forming a coalition with ultra-Orthodox religious parties. The price would have been high: giving the fanatic religious groups exclusive power over the religious conversion of immigrants to Israel. By implication, the legitimacy of Conservative and Reform Jews would have been undermined. Outraged protests from abroad helped torpedo that idea and forced creation of another inaptly named "unity" government joining Likud and Labor. It also...
...grabs Connie Chung away from NBC after losing Diane Sawyer to ABC. Prime time is now the battleground, and the competition for high-priced talent is intensifying...
...public benefits: irrigation systems that use less water and produce less pollution. A Mono County businessman suggests that the sale of water rights ought to be regulated to prevent profiteering. But here Willey hews to the free-market line: even if the price per acre-foot starts out high, he says, competition will drive it down to a fair level as other irrigation districts try to get in on the action. Beyond that, someone has to pick up the bill for the replacement water. Los Angeles has agreed to pay part of the cost of the pilot project. E.D.F...