Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overall effect on the balance of terror, however, would still be modest, making it little more than a first step toward more important goals that lie ahead. An INF agreement would take out of service less than 4% of the warheads the two sides have arrayed against each other. It would not apply to any of the 11,000 Soviet long-range warheads targeted against the continental U.S. Nor is there anything in the fine print of the prospective deal that would prevent the Soviets from replacing every two-stage intermediate-range SS-20 they dismantle with a three-stage...
...Space Research Institute, told TIME, "We need some kind of insurance policy on SDI; otherwise, what is advertised innocently as a testing program could lead to rapid deployment of a full-scale system. Unrestrained SDI testing would confront our military planners with the requirement of more offensive systems, not less. It's that simple...
...rode the FDIC and Abboud, who will assume management of the company from Houston's powerful Elkins family. The current shareholders will end up with less than a 3% stake in First City. The FDIC intervention, financed by annual premiums that U.S. banks pay to the federal agency, kept the Government from having to pay depositors an estimated $1.8 billion if the bank had gone out of business. But "this is no bailout," asserts FDIC Chairman L. William Seidman. "In terms of the stockholders and management, the bank has failed...
...face of single-minded zeal. The tendency is then to mistake it for irrationality. Ronald Reagan once famously referred to a group of regimes that defy the rules of international conduct as the "strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich." Less than two years later it was discovered that Reagan not only had dealt with these Looney Tunes but, in the words of his former chief of staff, had been snookered by them...
...been kind to the notion that fanaticism must collapse from within. Generally, the crazy state does not self-destruct. On the contrary, it must be destroyed from without: Hitler by the Allies, the Khmer Rouge by Viet Nam, Idi Amin by Tanzania. (In his last years Stalin was no less irrational than Hitler, if not quite as bloody. Yet far from self- destructing, his regime, having succeeded in war, extended its hegemony over a great empire...