Word: limiting
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Unfortunately, while taxes in Massachussetts are below the national average, 67 percent of voters support Question 3, which would repeal a seven-and-a-half percent surtax on income and limit the growth of state revenues. That would threaten existing programs, not to mention an expensive clean-up effort. Vote yes on 4 and no on 3. It's time to face the problem and the cost...
...Soviet Union offered to make substantial reductions in nuclear weapons if the U.S. agreed to limit the development of Star Wars only to laboratory research for the next ten years. Should President Reagan have accepted...
...terrific deal. If we could have had an agreement to reduce offensive weapons significantly and all the U.S. agreed to do was limit the (SDI) program to research for ten years, that would have been marvelous. There is still so far to go and so many technologies to develop in SDI. In my analysis, the program we have in mind would not have suffered at all under strict interpretation of the ABM treaty." Drell favors the plan that called for a 50% reduction in nuclear weapons; though he would eventually like to see total disarmament, he believes such a goal...
...forward, a courageous and perceptive move toward going back to a non-nuclear world -- as far as that is practical." McNamara points out that the Soviet position on SDI may be more negotiable than is often supposed. "The Soviets did not propose that we sacrifice SDI. They proposed to limit the program to what they understand to be the terms of the ABM treaty. They fear that if the Americans move SDI beyond the limits of the treaty, the U.S. would have a strategic advantage that would give us a first- strike capability. This is not, however, the President...
...operation. We come away with a clearer vision of the alternatives. We can either have arms control or we can have a crash program to deploy defense. We can't have both. The President has always said SDI is just a research program, and the Soviets say let's limit it to research. It shouldn't be beyond the ingenuity of man to reach some sort of accommodation between those two positions...