Word: started
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bush Administration is ready to test growing Soviet openness further. Last month Washington proposed a START verification package to be negotiated and partly carried out even before a treaty is completed. The initiative suggests measures to count warheads on missiles, tag weapons at manufacturing plants and ban such impediments to verification as encryption of missile test radio signals during launches. "This isn't putting the cart before the horse," says Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, "but putting them next to each other, where they belong...
Verification of an accord limiting strategic weapons (START) will be even more challenging. The INF category is comparatively simple to check. Since all missiles of a given type are to be destroyed, any such weapon spotted later would be in obvious violation. START will be far more complex. It will only reduce the numbers of various missiles, and inspectors will have to determine how many small cruise missiles are carried aboard bombers and possibly even submarines. Differentiation must be made between nuclear-tipped and conventionally armed cruise missiles, even if they look alike. A method will have to be found...
Skirmishing over the clean-air proposals was inevitable. From the start, it was clear that the White House's plan for cutting urban smog and toxic pollutants was far more lenient toward industry than was Bush's widely praised proposal for reducing acid rain. The clean-air plan consisted only of general goals, not detailed provisions that either environmentalists or industry could bank on. As a result, both sides furiously lobbied the Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of Management and Budget as top officials drafted the huge bill. On one day last week one OMB official alone logged...
After legislating the largest tax hike in 10 years and facing the possible loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in local aid to cities and towns, the Bay State cannot afford to ignore Galvin's plan. This is especially true because start-up costs would be so low: lottery officials say their computers are already geared to this type of betting...
...probably think they would not start doing that," Kidder said. "I think what we would see as a result is just another weapon available to us and to law enforcement officials to use against drug dealers...