Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Where other candidates have promised to limit Defense budget increases McGovern vows to cut military spending 20 to 25 percent. The reduction would come from halting production of the M-X. the B-1 and the space warfare program, and from requiring U.S. allies to assume a greater portion of legitimate costs of mutual security. Nor has McGovern steered clear of other sacred cows, he has said he will freeze Social Security and other non-need-based entitlement programs to reduce federal deficits. Farmers would no longer receive subsidies to limit production; instead, the government would buy surpluses and distribute...
...decision condemns itself to permanent conventional inferiority, we will have no choice but to opt for a deployment of U.S. forces in Europe that makes strategic and political sense. If nuclear weapons remain the ultimate deterrent to even conventional attack, a gradual withdrawal of a substantial portion, perhaps up to half, of our present ground forces would be a logical result. To provide time for necessary adjustments, that withdrawal could be extended over five years. To ease the transition further, we could, if Europe agreed, keep the excess ground forces in Europe for a time afterward in a new status...
...squad that went to the NCAA finals last year and shocked a good portion of the American hockey watching public. We're talking here about the 1981-82 icemen, who won more hearts than titles...
Another major theory predicts a diametrically opposite effect. According to the underdog theory, a large portion of the electorate, believing that victory is assured, simply don't bother to vote. Supporters of this theory also contend that because people naturally sympathize with the underdog, voters may cast their ballots out of pity for, rather than in support of, a candidate...
...soon as interest rates for 'AAA' 30-year tax-exempt bonds drop from their current 9.5 percent level to below 9 percent. Harvard may refinance some portion of the $229 million original issue, which paid for the House and science laboratory renovations and major projects at the Business and Medical Schools...