Word: refurbishments
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...Candidate called "fatally flawed," hard- liners in the Administration have just about won their battle to render the accord null and void. In his announcement last week, Reagan stressed that the Poseidons were being dismantled primarily because they are old and inefficient and would cost too much to refurbish. Accusing the Soviets of committing a pattern of treaty violations, Reagan said that once the number of cruise missiles on B-52 bombers puts the U.S. over the SALT II limits (probably by December), there will be no compensating reduction to observe the treaty...
Although better known for its TV sets and toasters, GE is the sixth-largest U.S. defense contractor, receiving 20% of its revenues from military work. In 1980 the company's space-systems division in Philadelphia was suffering cost overruns on a $47 million project to refurbish Minuteman missiles. Because GE had agreed in one contract to a fixed price for part of the work, some of the added costs could not legally be passed along to the Pentagon, and the company faced possible losses. To cut down on the red ink, GE managers decided to shift the overruns to different...
...lottery from freshmen but also try to canvass those who have already passed through it when it asks upperclassmen about issues such as House diversity and community. And, indeed, nothing could be more timely because at the same time that the College has worked to restore facades and refurbish interiors in many of the Houses, consensus on what life should be like within these buildings has crumbled noticeably...
...Sharon, who was forced to resign as Defense Minister after the official Israeli report on the massacre, the trial provided a forum to refurbish his reputation at home and abroad. Sharon has never made any secret of his desire to become Israel's Prime Minister; the morning after the trial ended, he said on NBC-TV's Today Show that "I believe that one day I'll try to do that." By persuading the jury that the paragraph was false, Sharon has helped his cause, even though he lost the case...
...which Ronstadt, her arranger-conductor and his orchestra proved that anything old could be renewed again, probably-given this kind of talent-in perpetuity. Lush Life is rather more playful and relaxed than its predecessor, as if the singer felt vindicated by her decision to refurbish some of pop's sturdiest standards. There is a kittenish sexuality singeing the edges of some of the twelve songs here; Mean to Me sounds as if it is being purred on a rumpled-up bed by a woman who has missed an entire night's sleep and is still bright-eyed...