Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...postcards asked Massachusetts legislators as well as representatives from other states to oppose all proposed laws which would limit abortion rights...
...START, the Administration is seeking a limit on deployed ballistic missiles (850 ICBMs and SLBMs), which could be verified by spy satellites. But it is also seeking an "inventory limit" on undeployed missiles, a measure that could be verified only by comprehensive on-site inspection, and even then there would be some question about whether the U.S. could know exactly how many excess rockets or warheads the Soviets...
...most that can be hoped for in the near term is a series of measures intended first to arrest the current deterioration, then to limit the damage that has been done. Only after that can bold new ideas for arms control begin to be implemented. Even then, those ideas will be viable only if they are pursued as part of a broader strategy that entails the restoration of hardheaded detente with the Soviet Union...
...antiballistic missile (ABM) defenses, since a defensive arms race would only escalate the offensive one already under way. Each side would feel compelled to increase the number and destructiveness of weapons with which to "penetrate" the defenses of the other. Eventually, in the first round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) during the first Nixon Administration, the Soviets agreed to limit ABMs...
...recalcitrant states, in reply, charged that DOT was sloppy in selecting the routes for the interim list. According to the New Jersey transportation department, DOT opened to 40-ton trucks a portion of Route 9 in the state that includes a bridge currently posted with a twelve-ton weight limit. The designations will also permit bigger trucks to rumble through the traffic-clogged streets of New York City, Philadelphia, Trenton and other metropolitan areas on their way to delivery terminals...