Word: salting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardly seem an event to create diplomatic turbulence. But when the aircraft linked up with the Strategic Air Command Seventh Bomb Wing last Friday, it became the 131st B-52 to be equipped with nuclear- tipped cruise missiles -- and that sent the U.S. right through the ceiling of the SALT II agreement. The unratified 1979 arms-control treaty allows the U.S. a total of 1,320 strategic nuclear delivery systems. If the number of bombers carrying cruises passes 130, the U.S. is obliged to make a corresponding reduction in another area of its nuclear arsenal. The White House decision...
...that the Reagan Administration will be any more interested in arms control now than it has been for the last six years. On the contrary, Reagan has responded to this crisis by setting back arms control even further. In just the last week he exceeded the limits of the Salt II Treaty, voluntarily adhered to since 1979, apparently hoping that it would shift attention from the scandal...
...York City's Lower East Side, Principal Anthony Barry takes the formal sex-ed curriculum "with a grain of salt": teaching the children of fairly conservative parents, most of them Chinese American and Hispanic, means playing things by ear. Says he: "We want parents to know that we're not undermining what they are trying...
Cambridge workers were on the streets manning salt scrapers by 3:40 a.m., and snowplows...
...open the champagne. Lines like this, no matter how heartfelt, become exhausting after a while and beg to be parodied. Still, Leavitt, like Philip, must be taken with a grain of salt. Both 25-year-olds need time to mature, to stop pandering for approval. But they also have much to offer, and their occasional well-meaning lapses can, when viewed with the right attitude, make them all the more endearing...