Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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saying they used proper restraint in ending...
Thus the question of nuclear testing is not critical for restraint of the nuclear arms race. The issue of nuclear testing, in my opinion, is of minor, secondary importance in comparison with the other military, technical, political and diplomatic problems involved in preventing thermonuclear calamity. Underground tests are conducted in sufficiently deep chambers with adequate safety measures to prevent ecological damage both in the country performing the tests or beyond its borders. As long as nuclear weapons exist and are not banned, the decision regarding underground testing is the internal, sovereign affair of each nuclear power...
...future world of greatly reduced nuclearweapons depends on the [Soviet Union's]restraint," Ambassador Cooper said. "The proposition isambitious, but not fantasy...
...sitting room. "I make no apologies for protecting the President," she said. "The doctors say that it will take six weeks for him to fully recover. That is the way it is going to be." Fitzwater felt out White House Physician John Hutton, who echoed the restraint: "The President doesn't need the excitement." And even Reagan himself in the past two weeks asked that the world be held back a while longer despite the rancid environment...
...attempt to use the Reagan magic involved a compromising entry into his world of pretense. Aides defended the Reagan fairy tales; editors treated his errors with restraint; the public punished those who were too critical of his whoppers. It was a vast communal exercise in make-believe. There had to be more to Reagan than shallowness and deception, since he was so clearly sincere and his sincerity impressed others so indelibly. He became invulnerable in his personal appeal and winsomeness, and others had to summon up more and more of their own credulity along with expressions of respect. The very...