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...decrease in the length, diameter, launch weight and throw weight of an existing type of missile (this was a shorter list of parameters than the U.S. had originally sought). Nor could there be a change in the fuel type of an existing rocket, the number of stages, the maximum number of warheads or the minimum weight of individual warheads. These last two provisions were meant to prevent the Soviets from developing an SS-18 with a capacity to launch as many as 40 smaller warheads?four times as many as the ten-MlRV maximum for the SS-18 stipulated...
...complicate matters, the U.S. had tested decoys of its own, and the Navy had designed the Trident I submarine-based missile to engage in almost exactly the sort of feints that the SS-18 had demonstrated. In the end, the U.S. negotiators insisted that release simulations above the maximum number of warheads allowed on a given type of missile would have to be distinguishable from the procedure used to dispense MIRVs. In other words...
...each other, because their expenses vary. The price control formula permits dealers to offset the cost of gasoline, the rent on their gas stations, the wages of their employees and other overhead expenses, and still earn a profit. For competitive reasons, dealers normally sell at somewhat less than their maximum allowable prices; drivers shop around for the best prices when supplies are ample. But when a small surplus of oil turns into a modest shortage, companies are forced to cut back on gasoline shipments, and that lets retailers raise their prices right up to the federal ceilings...
Coming on top of OPEC's cutbacks, the cartel's price increases have a snowball effect. With supplies tight, retail prices in the U.S. begin edging up to the maximum. Then, when OPEC raises its crude oil charges, the U.S. Government allows the price controlled ceiling itself to creep higher. As the demand for gasoline mounts, the retail price
...area will run a wire from the nearest telephone pole into the house and attach it to the back of the TV set, much as the Bell System installs a new phone. For a monthly fee averaging $7, the viewer can watch up to 36 channels, vs. a maximum of twelve on a set wired to a rooftop antenna. The cable brings in sharp, clear pictures and often enables a viewer to pick up out-of-the-area stations that may show on, say, Wednesday night a movie he missed on the local outlets on Tuesday...