Word: point
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...side, he contends, "the legalistic interpretation of the treaty that says that all of our research and development programs can go forward misses the fundamental point. They are not going to go forward. We can't go to the country and ask for the kind of increase in effort that is required, after having gone to the country to explain that this arms-control agreement is going to stabilize U.S.-Soviet relations and bring the strategic competition under control...
...strategy of some of the Senators that Perle advises "really is to kill the treaty through amendments. Such amendments are designed to go over ground that has been negotiated for years by three Administrations, amendments designed to reverse the final compromise on a given issue. A case in point: insisting that the Backfire be counted as a heavy bomber" and thus as a strategic weapon. On the other hand, Smith said, an amendment could specify "that the U.S. has the prerogative of developing a similar bomber without having to count it against our total of strategic launchers. That...
...former professor of mass communications who became chancellor of the University of Wisconsin's Stevens Point campus at 41, Dreyfus is a self-styled "Republicrat." He only joined the G.O.P. in December of 1977. "If you're going to take 'em over, the least you can do is join 'em," he says. An accomplished orator, he challenged and beat Congressman Robert Kasten, the official party choice, in the 1978 primary. He then went on to defeat Schreiber on a platform of open government, curtailed spending and tax relief. It was quite a feat for a political...
Social critics are quick to point out the dangers inherent in overly exuberant recycling. One is what planners call "bouti-quification," in which remodeled quarters tend to be filled with souvenir shops, candlemakers and T shirt dispensers. A more serious problem is what the English referred to as gentrification: the process by which affluent couples take over and rehabilitate rundown districts, leaving no place for their former low-rent occupants to go. This has not been allowed to happen in Savannah and other cities where minority groups, assisted by token loans, have been able to rehabilitate their own neighborhoods with...
...have not had the expected: the drama of adult caperings viewed by children. Is the author simply novelizing, inventing characters and taking them for a stroll? Not really; by sunset the symbolic Sunday night, when all the characters disperse, Lurie has made a strong and subtle point. The book's '30s setting is a clue: Why not 1879? Because the author's intention is to show the narrow range of adult female behavior that was on view to a girl of four decades ago. Men were defined in terms of their jobs and women in terms...