Word: slow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet launches. With their heavy-lift launcher Energia, which can boost payloads at least three times as great as those on the U.S. shuttle, the Soviets would provide an extra capability to ensure sufficient backup fuel supplies. They believe they can deploy a space shield or parachute to slow their spacecraft enough to enable it to enter orbit around Mars without the use of retrorockets that draw on precious fuel supplies. Soviet scientists concede that this "aerobreaking" technique is still experimental...
...principal factor in this frustration was not SDI. Nor did it have much to do with the reduction of strategic ballistic missiles. Instead, the insurmountable final obstacle to an agreement for next week proved to be the dilemma of how a START treaty should deal with a low-flying, slow-flying weapon that barely qualified as strategic. This is the nuclear-armed sea- launched cruise missile, a jet-powered drone that can be fired from a submarine or surface ship at targets on land...
...business in START was painfully slow. Karpov and his colleagues seemed determined to hold further progress on offensive reductions hostage until they extracted some indication of American flexibility on defenses...
...Soviets grew impatient with the slow pace of the negotiations in Geneva, so in the summer of 1986 they proposed higher-level talks. Paul Nitze, a State Department official and the Administration's elder statesman of arms control, led an American team that included Perle, Kampelman and others. Two sessions were held, in Moscow in August and in Washington in September. Both sides moved closer on details of a possible START agreement, but there was no progress...
...York-Chicago conflict is between the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Merc, which trades the controversial S&P 500 index futures. Each side in the standoff is unwilling to make any major procedural changes for fear of losing turf. The New York exchange, which was slow in setting up its own financial-futures market, controls 10% of worldwide trading in such contracts; the Chicago exchanges' share is about 80%. Contends John Sandner, chairman of the Chicago Merc: "We were so successful that it caused everyone to want to take our success from us. The agenda of New York...