Word: spin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little-known fact will come as a disconcerting discovery. In his first novel, State Scarlet (Putnam; $18.95), David Aaron, a top staffer at the National Security Council during the Carter Administration, uses fiction to show how the nation's command, control and communications system, known as C 3, could spin out of control during a crisis...
Although public attention has widely focused on arms-control schemes, many experts feel it is far more important to find ways to reshape the military strategies of both nations to make it less likely that a nuclear crisis will spin out of control. If either nation feels that its command structure is vulnerable, it is more likely to get an itchy finger on its button. One way to prevent this is to establish crisis-control centers to prevent misunderstandings. Another is for the U.S. to make its C 3 system more survivable -- and to avoid causing the Soviet command...
...question is whether the Administration wants to apply short-term solutions to what are long-term problems by counting on large-scale research projects to produce profitable spin-offs, while at the same time reducing federal contributions to student financial aid. Will Congress accept the Administration's priorities or will it make fundamental changes? The expectation in Washington is that the budget will be altered extensively in the months ahead before it is approved...
Swaggart, in Los Angeles last week to launch a revival meeting, quickly challenged Grutman to reveal any dirty linen the lawyer might have "to the whole world." Grutman produced an article in Spin magazine reporting former employees' sometimes vague accusations that Swaggart had spent lavish sums on his family and had used donations for causes other than their original purposes...
...probably is: not until the select investigating committees finally lay the whole story bare in public. The President at his long-awaited news conference may have put some of the more obvious questions to rest, less by answering them conclusively than by demonstrating that any further discussion would only spin in repetitious circles...