Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union is still comparatively inferior in economic strength. This is why it relies on growing military power and the threat of war to expand, its aim being to grab the resources, wealth, and labor power of other countries to compensate for its economic inferiority...
...necessary. I think we've fallen far behind in our defense expenditures--not expenditures per se, but in our defensive strength. Any briefing on a comparative basis of our strength and Soviet strength, either in conventional or strategic forces, brings us out, I think, in a very inferior position, and it's very dangerous to stay in an inferior position without trying to do something to redress that balance. We have to do quite a lot and do it quickly, because there is along lead time before you can improve your situation. That's why it's so dangerous...
...treaty. Caspar Weinberger wanted to appoint another SALT opponent, Paul Nitze, to the job, but Senator Helms and other conservatives argued that he had not been an active Reagan supporter. In a FORTUNE article published two years ago, Ikle had warned: "If the U.S. is not already militarily inferior [to the Soviet Union], it soon will...
...everything from cheap jokes to lynchings. (In black novels, heroes fear the accusation of rape far more than that of murder.) Guilt has also created stereotypes. In a poem on the comic actor Willie Best, LeRoi Jones listed the unlaughable characteristics: "Lazy/ Frightened/ Thieving/ Very potent sexually/ Scars/ Generally inferior/ But natural rhythms." White America has also created itself-a world that, when depicted in a novel like William Melvin Kelley's dem (1967), comes off as pallid, literally colorless, and trapped. In Drylongso, an oral history collected by John Langston Gwaltney and published last July, Jackson Jordan...
Educational emphasis is focused on the sciences. Despite the lack of good lab facilities and modern research tools, the Soviet science student is often more competent than his Western counterpart because he specializes in only one area. The rigidity of this educational program partially compensates for the inferior technology and materials available. The cost is creativity. A college education is five years in duration, but highly structured. Electives are almost unknown, as is the Western idea of liberal arts...