Word: outstrips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...detente, the Soviet Union is a formidable antagonist that continues seeking power and influence, or at least the ability to apply pressure, all over the world. Spending a higher percentage of its gross national product on weaponry and troops than the U.S. does, Russia is striving to outstrip American military prowess in many areas. This means that a secret service capable of ferreting out Soviet intentions as well as capabilities is vital to U.S. security. Says Cord Meyer Jr., a much-decorated retired CIA official: "We need a very, very alert advance warning capability, not only for weapons...
...sympathize with them," he sighs. But "pollution hysteria" generated by such studies as The Limits to Growth, he adds sternly, is another example of the odd doom consciousness that has persisted in industrial countries since Thomas Malthus, an early 19th century English clergyman who warned that population would soon outstrip available food supplies. Beckerman does admit to a certain pessimism about the next ten years. He fears unnecessarily slow growth, and blames politicians who deal with inflation by strangling economic expansion. The solution is not to stop growth, he says, but to use and direct it better...
...read this as either a relief or a tragedy, the supply of eager fighters seems to outstrip the demand. The back pages of the winter '77 issue are filled with classified ads like "Vietnam vet, experienced, seeks high-risk, high-pay work anywhere in the world." The seekers are the sad legacy of Vietnam. They know how to fight, but not what to fight for--unless the draft or a soldier's salary is a good basis for killing people. The ads do not read, "Good soldier seeks just and true cause to support...
...interest above one of Communism's cherished tenets: social priorities, not market forces, should determine prices. Though the Soviet Union is the world's leading oil producer (averaging 9 million bbl. per day last year, v. 8.5 million for Saudi Arabia), domestic and Eastern European demand will outstrip output by 1980. The Soviet Union and its Comecon partners are already importing small quantities of high-priced Middle Eastern oil, mainly from Iraq, Iran and Libya. Hence the Soviets are in a rush to develop new Siberian fields. They must invest lavishly in expensive Western equipment and drill...
...City building projects are almost at a standstill as soaring costs far outstrip targeted estimates. Rising costs have forced San Francisco to postpone indefinitely construction of an 18,000-seat sports arena. The Washington, D.C., rapid-transit system, budgeted at $2.5 billion five years ago, will cost at least $4.5 billion, perhaps $6 billion, before it is fully completed in 1981. Prices of goods that cities buy are also steep. Environmental and transportation equipment was exhibited for the officials in Houston. But reaction to items like a 19-seat minibus was tempered: mayors kicked the tires and winced...