Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spending over the next five years merely to finish projects started under Reagan, and that doesn't include various expensive weapons -- the Stealth bomber, Seawolf submarine, D5 Trident missile -- soon to be out of development and ready for production. Bailing out faltering savings and loan companies and updating antiquated nuclear-production plans may require $70 billion more in new funding. Bush himself, by James Baker's count, has proposed $40 billion in additional spending for new domestic initiatives, including more than $6 billion in oil and capital-gains tax breaks. Upward pressure on the deficit will be inexorable. A combination...
...meeting with Reagan around December 7 would give the two sides another chance to narrow the gap on a treaty to reduce long-range nuclear weapons arsenals and to ease tensions caused by rebel attacks on Soviet troops in Afghanistan and a slowdown in the Red Army's withdrawal from the country...
Cliff found no contradiction in declaring, "I am not a politician. I am a musician with a mission," and then singing several explicitly political songs on such topics as apartheid, Vietnam and nuclear war (this last in a song dedicated onstage to George Bush). But Cliff's polemics were delivered with such good nature and such energy that one could not help but dance. Even in the slow songs, Cliff's energy came streaming through, in the sweat running down his face and in a voice that soared to the rafters...
Ellsberg said that the conflict between his job as a defense adviser and his shock at military plans had surfaced several times before, particularly upon learning that America's nuclear strike strategy was projected to cause 600 million deaths worldwide...
...Zintl provided on-air analysis of the voting results. TIME also distributed guidebooks and a questionnaire on key issues. That survey showed, among other things, that 80% of students and parents opposed new taxes to reduce the federal deficit, and 61% favor a treaty drastically reducing U.S. and Soviet nuclear-missile stockpiles. Asked to compare their future financial prospects with their parents' current circumstances, 43% of the students said they expected to be better off, and only 11% thought their standard of living would decline...