Word: locks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prematurely. Both on the eve of Ground Zero's kickoff and during the week, the President felt obliged to express his sympathy with the fundamental fears of the participants. Yet he repeated his objection to an immediate freeze on nuclear weaponry; such an agreement, he argued, would simply lock in a supposed Soviet missile advantage...
...Maybe we'll end up admitting that we're doing exactly what we have been doing all the time without admitting it--when a guy gets convicted of doing something serious, nobody's figured out how to give him the proper outlook on life. So we will lock him up for a good long time with a bunch of rats just as vicious as he is, and see if by the time he gets out he's lost interest in raising hell." Which seems to be about how it works...
...paying 14% or 15% interest to borrow money for 30 years through a bond issue, they have been spending the same amount to get funds for only 90 days, and then renewing those loans every three months. Corporations have adopted such strategies because they do not want to lock themselves into paying the current interest rates for the next 30 years...
Until the lock ran out one second too late...
...Freeze Campaign benefit concert earlier this month--argue that the idea of a freeze is naive and simplistic. In Haig's words, "This resolution is not only bad defense policy, but it is bad arms control policy as well. "Haig and the conservatives argue that a freeze would lock the United States into its present position of "military disadvantage and dangerous vulnerability," doing away with-both the incentive for the Soviets to negotiate arms reduction and the chance for America to redress the imbalance...