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...these circumstances, numerically equal retaliatory forces were rightly conceived as adequate insurance against surprise attack. The optimum total should be large enough so that it could be overwhelmed only by a violation of the agreement too large to be hidden. Yet it should involve a ceiling that would stop the accumulation of strategic weapons. This was the intellectual basis of the arms limitation talks proposed by President Johnson and implemented by President Nixon...
...think you'll ever get a consensus among citizens. I think what's really important is how citizens react to market signals, and they certainly don't react to reach optimum decisions, but they do react. We look at demand for heating oil or demand for gasoline and they're down People do react responsibly to higher prices. But in terms of any new consensus, may be in a new generation. I mean, my daughter is certainly better than our generation at turning off lights and that sort of things, but I'm not optimistic about creating a consensus...
...second industrial revolution," said Chen, "some kind of optimum government policy will be vital in guiding the path of economic development." Chen argued that most Asian nations are still groping to find that policy. In South Korea, too rigid government planning has led the country into several unsuccessful ventures like automobile manufacturing. The crucial task for governments, said Chen, will be to seek out a course that is neither too lax nor too heavyhanded...
...strikes the theme of his pet metaphor again. "I just don't think of people in departments as bushels of wheat--I think of them as a family. Would we reach a social optimum if we reconstructed our wives every year--as some people seem...
...optimum number of concentrators for our department would be 110," Bakanowsky said, adding that there are currently about 135 VES majors...