Word: standoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over a decade, current problems merely confirm long-held doubts. Says Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, the incoming chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee: "For most of the aircraft's useful life, it will not be able to penetrate (Soviet airspace) and will be a standoff carrier of cruise missiles and conventional bombs." The U.S., concludes Nunn, "could have built that kind of system much cheaper than we have built...
...younger ones ignored him. He might have been a stuffed animal leashed to a parking meter. The human parallel was too disturbing for Bundy to dwell on it." But dwell on it he does: "Impersonally appraised, in terms of survival the two of them were pretty much at a standoff: the dog was better fleshed out, but Bundy was the heartier eater...
Congress has yet to resolve its basic standoff with the White House over how to close the budget gap without raising taxes or making major cuts in defense or social programs. After a year of Gramm-Rudman, Congress has become somewhat more frugal but mostly more inflexible. "Gramm-Rudman has helped, but it's a little like a half-successful birth-control method," mused Lynn Martin, an Illinois Republican who serves on the House Budget Committee. "It's better than nothing, but it's not as good as just saying...
...Brown match, in which the final tally was 9-5, was a dead-even battle until just before the half, when a Bruin goal with less than a minute left broke a 2-2 standoff...
Last month the Soviets arrested Daniloff forspying. The United States government said thatarrest was a response to the indictment of SovietU.N. worker Gennadi Zakharov on espionage charges.The result of these dual arrests was a more thanmonth-long diplomatic standoff that led toincreased tensions in Soviet-American relations...