Word: productions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course. Usually when confronted by an enemy the United States has bought a lot of weapons for itself. Now it has come up with a new idea: let the enemy buy the weapons. That way we get to pocket the money, and they get stuck with the substandard product instead...
...Defense Initiative Organization in the Pentagon concentrate on the lesser task of defending our weapons rather than our cities. The rationale would be to enhance rather than replace deterrence. 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...
...Johnson. For the past three months the governors have let the basic money supply grow at a 16% annual rate -- much faster than the 3%-to-8% target range that the Fed originally set for this year. That accommodating policy has allowed the growth rate in the gross national product to bounce up from .6% in the second quarter to 2.4% in the July-September period...
...Democrat Tom Daschle turned Republican Senator James Abdnor's ads against him. When we last tuned in, Abdnor was running a commercial linking Daschle to Actress Jane Fonda, who, the ad incorrectly claimed, eschewed red meat -- not a trifling charge in a state where beef is a leading farm product. During the three weeks that the ad aired, Abdnor made up about ten points in the polls. Then Daschle decided to attack the attack with an ad showing a bunch of cigar-smoking pols discussing ways to smear Daschle. "We'll distort the farm thing, confuse 'em with Fonda...
...hardly be argued that the state's voters did not know whom they were getting. Daschle takes care to present himself as a homegrown product of South Dakota's prairies. Says he: "The only big city I ever went to before I was 20 years old was Minneapolis." Daschle represented about half his state in Congress after 1978, and all of it after 1982; he defeated the other incumbent, Republican Clint Roberts, when a redistricting blended their two districts into one that year. Moreover, Daschle's liberalism is not of the knee-jerk variety. He voted against the tax-reform...