Word: rapides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other nations experience more rapid economic growth and threaten its market shares, the Great Power feels its security threatened and instinctively spends more on defense, compounding the problem of its long-term economic decline. The Power becomes "overstretched," as it no longer has the capacity to defend all its international commitments...
...industrial base has eroded in recent years as the record Reagan budget deficits have drained private savings from badly-needed investment. Federal investment in civilian research and development has fallen 27 percent in real terms since 1981; America's failure to adapt and develop new technology has led to rapid declines in productivity. The United States has been borrowing abroad in record levels for the purpose of consumption, rather than investment...
Admittedly, trees are just a stopgap. Unless a tree is used for lumber, it eventually dies and rots or is burned, releasing whatever CO2 it has absorbed. But since the rapid pace of change may be the greatest danger posed by global warming, stopgaps could be important. If nothing else, reforestation will buy time to put other preventive measures into place...
...demonstrably safer than those now in operation. Moreover, that basic technology has been available for more than 20 years. It was largely ignored in favor of a technology -- the water-cooled reactor -- that had already been proved in nuclear submarines. But water-cooled reactors are particularly susceptible to the rapid loss of coolant, which led to the accidents at both Chernobyl and Three Mile Island...
...Soviets a huge advantage. Whatever personnel and armaments Gorbachev withdraws from Europe could readily be returned in a time of crisis. Weinberger even contended that demobilization of Soviet troops is easily reversible: "In the Soviet Union you can turn a soldier into a peasant and back again in rapid order, without public opinion, parliament or editorial back talk...