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Neither side will openly admit that he who strikes first strikes best. But bot believe it. And in this context, Star war takes on critical importance. Because is the United States is ever forces preemptively to knock out the Russian nuclear force, even a half-way decen Star Wars system would go a long was towards cutting down the retaliatory damage we suffer...
Also, Harvard is the four-time defending league champion and every team gives that little bit extra to try to knock them off of their Crimson pedestal...
QUOTE: "You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one and (the last one) will go over very quickly...
...disturbing, then, about the MX vote was the Reagan Administration's success in persuading a majority of lawmakers to pursue the goal of a strong defense blindly. The faults of this particular multiple warhead system are many and well-documented, chief among them being its vulnerability to a knock out strike. But the President made clear through his no-holds-barred lobbying effort that he was less concerned with the quality of the system deployed than just deploying something to demonstrate firmness to Moscow and its Geneva delegation. Similarly, a refusal to undermine our negotiators at arms talks led congressmen...
...along with forest products and telecommunications goods and services. This sector--or industry-wide--approach was a sharp shift from the previous goal of trying to gain entry on a product- by-product basis, a narrowly focused tactic that was getting nowhere. Says one official: "As soon as we knock down one clay pigeon, another pops up. We have got to knock them all down...