Word: partiality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That goal is very different from the President's original speech. In a sense, the public is being sold a product that does not match its packaging. An elementary concern for truth in advertising should lead us to distinguish "SDI 1" (The March 1983 brand) and "SDI 2" (the partial defense being developed...
...based antimissile systems like lasers. The Administration has advanced the so-called permissive interpretation, under which development and testing of those systems and their components would be allowed. That would mean that as soon as the ten-year moratorium on deployment ended, the U.S. might have some kind of partial defensive system ready to erect on short notice, or so the Soviets fear...
This diverse range of divestment actions has succeeded in bringing increasing public attention to the contradictory position which the administration holds in regard to divestment. The result has been to make this position increasingly untenable and to help force a partial divestment...
...graduate of the Law School placed partial blame for the deficit on the Marshall Plan. "We chose to help our enemies and allies to rebuild their economy [after World War II]. Europe and Japan ended up with industries more modern and more productive than their American counterparts," Brophy said...
...Soviet give on any of these matters: the best one can predict is a "long, tough discussion." Reagan's advisers are convinced the Soviets do not appreciate how seriously the U.S. takes human rights, and think they need to hear the American position directly from Reagan. With the partial exception of INF, a mere listing of the positions of the two sides on the agenda's main items could lead to bleak predictions for success. But the great imponderable is the extent to which the two leaders, talking face to face, can find the compromises that have so far eluded...