Word: scrapped
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...sooner had Thomas arrived than he gravitated to Scalia. The pair not only voted alike in 56 out of 90 decisions, but Thomas can write in language that brings to mind Scalia's occasional let's-you-and-me-scrap tone. "Jurors do not leave their knowledge of the world behind when they enter a courtroom," Thomas scolded the other Justices in one dissent. "And they do not need to have the obvious spelled out in painstaking detail...
Russia will now scrap its SS-18s and its highly capable SS-24s. In fact, said Yeltsin, he had already ordered the SS-18s taken off active status. The U.S. will dismantle its MX missiles and will bring its Minuteman III missiles down to one warhead apiece. The U.S. will also cut by more than half the number of warheads on submarine-based missiles...
...stumbling block is U.S. insistence that the Russians scrap their entire post-START arsenal of 154 land-based SS-18 missiles, each of which carries 10 warheads. Yeltsin demands as a quid pro quo that the U.S. dismantle its fleet of multiple-warhead Trident submarine-based missiles. After a final meeting with U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev reported "good progress" but added that "the rest will depend on our Presidents...
...think, is sitting around thinking that from the heavens is going to fall two or one billion dollars and all you have to do is scrap for it," Fineberg says...
Goaded by Congress, the CIA declassified a report calling for more public access to officials and historical documents. A benefit of CIA glasnost: "We have persuaded reporters to postpone, change, hold or even scrap" many stories adverse to U.S. interests...