Word: impetuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obviously, a test-ban agreement will demand effort and sacrifice. But the real goal is not just removing the well-publicized dangers of fallout and checking the impetus that testing gives the arms race. The history of past disarmament negotiations has written the agenda at Geneva, and the test-ban is the inescapable first item. If the test-ban can be disoposed of in any way that leaves room for national security and encourages compliance, the areas of negotiation will broaden. Few have spoken of the step beyond the test-ban, but disengagement is clearly the most promising. Disengagement...
...Fourth Power. Impetus for Adenauer's arguments is provided by aggressive Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, who demands that NATO become a ''fourth atomic power''; this obviously would make West Germany an atomic power as well, for despite NATO's control over them, nuclear warheads would be in the hands of the Bundeswehr. Most of the American nuclear weapons on the Continent are already on West German soil but under strict U.S. control...
...Congress ascribes a quasi-military function to private buildings, blurs the distinction between civil and national defense, and jeopardizes the strike right of building-trades workers in the name of national survival. Needless to say, Rockefeller's political stance and rhetoric before the New York Assembly subcommittee adds considerable impetus to such frightening developments...
...impetus for the current European boom in mutual funds began with the return to convertibility of most European currencies. Excited by the prospect of being able to invest abroad and take home their profits in hard francs, Swiss bankers hurried to set up a clutch of new mutual funds. The Swiss master of mutuals is a Zurich banker named Ernest Renk, who runs a combine called Intrag for the giant Union des Banques Suisses and three smaller banks. Intrag manages ten separate mutual funds with combined assets of $500 million, specializing in investments in different parts of the world...
...Competitions are the only way to give impetus to a career-until someone thinks of a better way," said Pianist Agustin Anievas last week. He spoke with authority: Anievas had just won the first annual Dimitri Mitropoulos International Music Competition-a brand-new contest designed to uncover talented new pianists both from the U.S. and abroad...