Word: salt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some 123 B-52s have been equipped with cruise missiles capable of hitting the Soviet Union in a nuclear strike. When the Air Force finishes sticking a pod of the missiles on the 131st bomber, the U.S. will exceed the limits imposed by the 1979 SALT II treaty. Some Air Force officials had initially suggested that the limit would be passed about mid-November, before the two superpower leaders might have picked up where they left off at last year's Geneva summit...
...Soviets have made clear their displeasure with President Reagan's announcement last May that as part of the Pentagon's strategic modernization program, the U.S. planned to go ahead with missile deployments that would violate SALT II. Though the pact was never ratified by the Senate, each side < had pledged to abide by the treaty as long as the other did. Breaching the SALT II limits, the Soviets have made clear, could mean no second summit...
However, not all the news is bad. "Sometimes high tech science brought to bear on common problems does produce a low-cost simple effective treatment," Cash said, citing a treatment for diarrhea--a major child-killer--which uses water, sugar and isotonic salt. This treatment has proved particularly effective because all the ingredients are inexpensive and mothers can administer the medicine to their children...
However Potter said "Demographer's predictions should be taken with a grain of salt. In my opinion they include a certain amount of wishful thinking...
...still life, like Henri Laurens's Dish with Grapes, 1918; an image of landscape, like David Smith's Australia, 1951, or for that matter a real landscape, like Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, 1970, a quarter-mile coil of rock now sunk in Utah's Great Salt Lake...