Word: modeli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your story "Dense Pack Gets Blasted" [Dec. 20] states that after more than eight years of study, the expenditure of $4.5 billion on the missile and consideration of some 30 options, the Pentagon lacks a politically acceptable and scientifically credible basing mode. Has it occurred to anyone that this may be the first clue that there is no credible plan...
...public tends to be generously tolerant of the withholding of material when it concerns military affairs. Such tolerance gives Pentagon bosses a lease to play games that are not always strictly tied to military security. In one glaring example, the Pentagon went into a culprit-hunting mode a few months ago when somebody made public certain classified information: a budget figure, as it turned out, and a blue-sky one at that, interesting (and embarrassing) not because it endangered the nation's security but because it suggested that coming deficits would be much bigger than the Administration...
...with spent fuel, embedded deep in the rock of large (2,000-acre) manmade caverns, then completely covered over. Aboveground, a typical waste burial site is expected to look something like a mining operation. The method of waste transport is also an issue unaddressed by the bill. The preferred mode is by train; the Energy Department claims success testing a 150-ton railcar cask able to withstand crashes and fires. In the lengthy saga of nuclear-waste disposal, acknowledged a spokesman for the Atomic Industrial Forum, a trade group for the nuclear industry, "transportation could be the next big issue...
Torch Song Trilogy. Son of a Brooklyn handkerchief maker, Playwright Harvey Fierstein began working as a drag queen in East Village clubs at 16. As he enacts the key role, he vividly evokes a mode of life that is alternately hilarious and heart-wrenching...
...heat, Mississippi Republican Trent Lott, working with Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois to support Reagan's position, concluded that the President would lose. He gave White House aides the news so that Reagan could withdraw from an all-out fight, perhaps by agreeing to reconsider the basing mode, and avoid a repudiation. Reagan refused...