Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instant planes are hijacked, hostages seized, embassies blown up or sleeping Marines killed, that particular battle has been lost. We can only try to limit the defeat. The task that we have rarely undertaken with fervor and ingenuity is anticipating and preventing the next tragedy, to the extent that is possible. The invasion of Grenada stands as a notable and successful example...
While Puccio is being showered with public accolades, however, some of his legal colleagues in New York City have private reservations. Says one old Puccio foe: "There is no limit to which he wouldn't go to get an advantage." A former courtroom opponent who on the record calls Puccio "a very aggressive, very able lawyer," adds confidentially, "I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw a grand piano." Puccio, the former chief prosecutor of Abscam, knows he rubs many in the legal Establishment the wrong way. "I'm very noninstitutional," he acknowledges. "I'm uncontrollable...
...Reagan Administration has tried to limit the sale of high-tech equipment that can be put to military use and to crack down on the international "techno-bandits" who purchase or steal for the Soviets what they cannot directly buy. But in an open society that must trade freely with the world, the Reaganauts have about as much chance of preventing high-tech secrets from flowing out of the U.S. as they do of stopping cocaine and marijuana from flooding...
...soon be in violation of one of the agreement's provisions. When the Navy begins sea trials of the U.S.S. Alaska Trident submarine in September, the U.S. will have 14 more than the 1,200 multiwarhead land- and sea-based missiles each side is permitted. To stay within the limit, it must either retire and disable an older 16-missile Poseidon sub or destroy at least 14 Minuteman land missiles. Hard-liners argued against taking either course; they wanted the U.S. to exceed the limit deliberately. Reagan chose a halfway measure: mothballing or converting a Poseidon rather than cutting...
...drawing "excessive conclusions." While acknowledging obstacles, he also insisted that "the Franco-German relationship is, to the Chancellor's eyes and mine, fundamental for the success of Europe." In the absence of firm agreements, it seemed that the two leaders had fallen back on a bottom-line goal: to limit damage and ensure that the current discord does not widen...