Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parallel negotiations on INF, Carter or anyone else would have faced an even greater problem. (The talks, then under the label of Long-Range Theater Nuclear Forces, began in October 1980, just before the U.S. presidential election.) The U.S. took the firm view that the only weapons in Western Europe eligible for limitation were American ones, not those of Great Britain and France, and there was considerable doubt that the American ones in question would ever make it from test ranges in the U.S. to deployment sites in Europe. In accordance with its so-called two-track decision...
...running across the lot, stepping on things I can't see, surrounded again by police whistles and flashing blue lights moving parallel to us in the street...
...time for her to get up and go home. Says Gurney's uncle, Buffalo Physician Ramsdell Gurney: "My mother did exactly what Peter had her do in that play. To see her portrayed that way saddened me, but the audience thought it was terribly amusing." The most striking parallel in Gurney's plays to his life is the marriage between the young lovers' parents in The Middle Ages: four years ago, Gurney's widowed mother married Gurney's wife's widowed father. Says Gurney: "This time, though, it was life imitating art - I wrote...
Clearly, the parallel is not perfect: Americans are less committed to an egalitarian society, the New Deal and Great Society have lost their appeal in the face of the new selfishness, and one cannot be sure that voters will respond so directly, Still, a welfare state has a certain amount of inertia. One cannot easily deprive people of privileges they have had a taste of, and even Reagan has been forced to compromise, sparing Social Security, signing the new $5 billion jobs bill, and even raising some taxes. But the pressure for new taxes will continue as the projected deficit...
...striking aspect of the report is how closely the Soviet developments parallel the weapons strategy pursued by the West. One of the two new ICBMs being tested by Moscow, for example, is similar in size and range to the proposed MX; the other is mobile, similar in concept to what some analysts have proposed for the U.S. The Soviets are also trying to counter U.S. naval superiority with a nuclear carrier resembling the Nimitz and missile-carrying nuclear submarines comparable to the Tridents. The Blackjack bomber is intended to fill the role proposed for America...