Word: maintainance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foreign currency, those who brag about working with classified data and strangers who ask for base telephone listings. The Army concedes that no spies were caught during the system's testing period; indeed, the Army has not had a major espionage case in recent years. "We're trying to maintain this record," says Lieut. Colonel Richard Holk, a spokesman for the Army's Intelligence and Security Command...
...weapons, which were due to adjourn last week. Then Soviet negotiators returned to Moscow for consultations, and Max Kampelman, the chief American negotiator, flew off to Brussels to brief NATO allies before continuing on to Washington to confer with President Reagan. At week's end Reagan announced that "to maintain the momentum" generated in Geneva, Secretary of State George Shultz would fly to Moscow in mid-April to confer with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze...
...Herald, he may have carried no more than a note pad and a few supplies. In the electronic age, reporters backpack a heavier load. A network correspondent must lead a safari of a producer and camera and sound technicians. Each network spends up to $10 million a year to maintain Washington offices, but even the smallest bureau can run up a $500,000 annual tab. CBS spends nearly as much on Diane Sawyer's $1.2 million contract as on the three bureaus it will be closing down -- Warsaw, Bangkok and Seattle. But in a business where personalities win ratings...
...system, including SDI, can be effectively overcome by simply increasing the number of decoys and operational warheads, by jamming and by various methods of deception. All this as well as other considerations makes SDI a kind of "Maginot line in space" -- expensive and ineffective. Opponents of SDI maintain that even though it would be ineffective as a defensive weapon, it could create a shield behind which a first strike would be launched, since it might be effective in repelling a weakened retaliatory strike...
...freezing cold night in March, with a thesis to finish and a chest cold to fight, it's easy not to feel like everyone I pass is a brother. There are only unwanted in-laws on nights like that. It takes all of my energy just to maintain an adequate dose of contempt for everyone I pass...