Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this intense propaganda campaign is to drive a wedge between the U.S. and its Western European allies. The more immediate intent is to encourage opposition to the stationing of a new generation of U.S. medium-range missiles in Western Europe, a policy that NATO adopted in 1979 to offset the prolific deployment of SS-20s and other weapons in the western Soviet Union. Ustinov's remarks were carefully targeted and timed. Moscow's campaign will soon face two key tests: the opening on Nov. 30 of the Geneva talks on limiting Soviet and American theater nuclear forces (T.N.E...
Indeed, while the Soviets have more than 250 new SS-20s within striking range of Europe, NATO as yet has no weapons with a reciprocal capability. The original 1979 decision to deploy the U.S.-built T.N.F was intended to offset precisely that advantage. The "roughly equal" figures cited by the Soviets are juggled and distorted. Moscow counts all nuclear-armed U.S. and allied aircraft capable of reaching the Soviet Union, but conveniently omits the hundreds of their own planes with the same range. Secretary of State Haig pointed out last week that the Soviets have enough missiles and aircraft...
Says Karen Nussbaum, 31, a union official in Cleveland: "Organizing white-collar workers is now make or break for the trade-union movement." Inroads are being made by some unions, among white-and gray-collar workers in health care, teaching and government, which tend to offset the blue-collar losses...
...time, Zimbabwe's 7 million blacks are increasingly restive at the slowness of economic progress and racial reform since Mugabe took office. Though educational facilities have been expanded to include an additional 100,000 children and medical care is free, inflationary prices for food and housing have already offset these gains. In particular, blacks are upset by the lagging pace of Mugabe's land-redistribution program, which has the goal of settling 150,000 blacks by the end of 1983 on largely white-owned territory. Mugabe should have the money to compensate the whites as well...
...part series features four different ensembles playing standard programs in the library's 'Green Room.' "We wanted to stay as close as possible to the central tradition of great 18th- and 19th-century music," Dennis said, noting that an almost prohibitively high ticket price--ten dollars per concert-- is offset in his mikd by "the high degree of competence among our very fine players...