Word: optioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreement. Naturally, we are aware that in short-range missiles, the Soviets retain a considerable advantage, as they do in conventional and chemical arms. We would like any agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union to take Europe's security interests into account. For us, the zero option, the withdrawal and destruction of Soviet SS- 20s and of U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles, could be positive elements as long as there existed, on a parallel basis, the broad outlines of agreement in principle on equilibrium in short-range missiles and on the means of verification. Will...
Chirac is scheduled this week to make his first visit as Premier to the U.S., where he will attempt to burnish his international credentials in talks with President Reagan, Cabinet officials and Wall Street financial leaders. His basic message to Washington: that France, while approving in principle the "zero option" arms-control proposal, which calls for the removal of all U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range nuclear weapons from European soil, wants to be certain the two sides also achieve parity on shorter-range nuclear missiles. Chirac is expected to renew France's commitment to the campaign against international terrorism...
...CLASS option -- Identa Call -- can save lives. When equipped with this feature, a phone displays the caller's number on a small screen. In Atlantic City, N.J., employees at the Bally's Casino Hotel came to the aid of a heart- attack victim after the feature was programmed into the hotel's internal phone system last November. The guest had placed a desperate call to the front desk but could not stay on the phone long enough to give a name or room number...
...falls in love with the officer who takes his mug-shots, the stern but delicate Edwina (Holly Hunter). He and Ed are happy in their trailer park until they discover that Ed is barren. As H.I's extensive prison record prevents them from adopting, they have only one option: stealing one of the new Arizona Quints, five identical babies born to one Nathan Arizona, the king of unpainted furniture. Clearly the Arizonas have more kids than they can handle...
...having blocked "any arms-control agreement that harmed national security." Perle maintains that he has nothing against arms treaties, but he insists that "you have to be prepared to resist the temptation to sign bad ones." Despite his reputation, Perle was the author of the so-called zero-option proposal for eliminating intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe, which has become the framework for current talks...