Word: madding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...section for Biology 128, "Animal Viruses and Oncogenic Transformation," is already pretty far along on her anthrax bomb she's going to let loose on the Fly Club's garden party his May. It's 60 percent of the course grade, and I know she'd be pretty mad if all that work went to waste...
...short, these skeptics say, the genie is out of the bottle; it is a MAD world--like it or not. That was the reply of the State Department when, during Reagan's first term, the White House requested a secret study on the elimination of nuclear weapons. The President, however, resisted the conclusion of the report and demanded that the goal of a nuclear-free world be made a centerpiece of his arms-control policy. That presidential imperative was politically brilliant. It allowed Reagan to escape from the corner into which critics on his left had tried to paint...
...that is, be less expensive to build than the offensive systems designed to foil it. It follows from Nitze's cautionary assessment that if Star Wars research fails to produce a scheme that meets those two criteria, the U.S. would be better off trying to make the best of MAD by inducing the Soviets to scale back their offenses and by reaffirming both sides' adherence to the 1972 ABM treaty...
...first two years of his White House tenure, Ronald Reagan rarely immersed himself in the arcane details of nuclear issues. The difficult minutiae seemed to bore him. But one broader element intrigued him: the question of whether there was any realistic alternative to Mutual Assured Destruction. To Reagan, MAD was the equivalent of two men pointing cocked pistols at each other...
Reagan promptly seized on Watkins' argument. It validated his conviction that there had to be a way out of the MAD trap and played on his often stated faith in U.S. science and industry. Reagan said that he wanted the ideas pursued promptly...