Word: restrict
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...their bargaining position at the Geneva talks on strategic arms reduction. Though a final agreement is still a long way off, Soviet negotiators have dropped their demand that the U.S. limit the deployment of Trident submarines and Trident II missiles. The Soviets have also stopped insisting that the U.S. restrict the range of cruise missiles launched from bombers...
Mendelsohn calls such a reaction a classic case of scientists' unwillingness to adjust to public needs. He says that researchers should voluntarily restrict their research if they cannot dispose of waste properly, charging that many scientists "put in danger future generations so they can get on with their research...
...happens at Williamsburg, the U.S. is undoubtedly going to continue to look askance at the volume and substance of East-West trade. A focus for that critical view is the NATO alliance's Coordinating Committee on Export Controls, or COCOM, a body created in 1950 to monitor and restrict the flow of strategic Western industrial goods to the Warsaw Pact nations. It is virtually powerless today. Complains a senior Reagan Administration official: "COCOM is nothing but a junior Italian official and ten clerks...
David Solomon received one of the biggest hands of the day when he rejected the idea of legislation which would restrict the availability of cannabis to prescription by a physician. "Forget about the M.D.s for a minute. Let's talk about the folk doctors. We're folk. We doctor ourselves. (Legislation should) support the right of any individual citizen to grow--to produce marijuana, without taxation, for personal use and the use of friends and family...(It should be) as free as lettuce...
...made concessions. In SALT I, they agreed not to count as strategic weapons the European-based nuclear forces of the U.S. and its allies, even though some of those NATO missiles and warplanes could reach the U.S.S.R. Those are some of the weapons that the Soviets are trying to restrict in the INF talks under way in Geneva...