Word: ipsofacto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ground that military competition is inherent in the superpower relationship, and the U.S. should not be fettered by arms-control agreements as it tries to match or surpass the Soviets. As one hard-liner put it early in Reagan's Administration, "Arms control is bad medicine; it is, ipsofacto, bad." Some of the arms-control opponents urged Reagan to use the meeting with Gromyko as a high-level gripe session to complain about a number of Soviet transgressions, prominently including alleged violations by Moscow of previous arms-control agreements...
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