Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...population continues to expand at the present rate, by the year 2000 the U.S. will find itself supporting some 300 million people. Will the country's natural resources be able to stand the strain? Having asked itself the question, a Ford Foundation study group called Resources for the Future spelled out a 1,000-page answer that bristles with confidence Come the turn of the century, says th report,' U.S. resources will easily be able to support U.S. citizens on the lush leve of living they will have learned to expect...
...have succeeded in spending so much money on nuclear gadgetry that we have put the Soviet Union under real economic strain," the scientist said. "They have always been convinced that the future belongs to them, and they have become convinced--at least those in power have become convinced--that the way to win the future is not through the arms race. It is therefore no longer profitable for them to continue the arms race. They would like to keep a limited nuclear force and pursue the struggle in the politico-economic realm...
...other is a test ban, so that the continuing arms race will not poison the atmosphere. But beyond that, he said, Washington is not ready to go. Since we now have the edge in the armaments race, Washington finds it useful to keep the Soviet Union under the economic strain of an arms race...
This analysis, he points out, makes the Soviet desire to tie a test-ban to a general limited disarmament agreement readily understandable. The Soviet Union realizes that if it grants the test-ban, meaningful negotiations for a disarmament agreement will cease. Since Russia wants to end the economic strain of heavy arms production, the Kremlin insists on linking the two in order to lure the United States into an agreement...
Bizarre Measure. By Blair's bizarre measure, the Post last week succeeded be yond its wildest dreams. Wally Butts's lawyers said that they would strain Blair's yardstick with a $10 million libel suit. Already headed for the courts is a $5,000,000 suit filed by Marlon Brando, after a Post piece said that "he wasted $6,000,000 by sulking on the set" of Mutiny on the Bounty. Bear Bryant, who brought a $500,000 action last fall, after the Post accused him of teaching brutal football, says that he will file another suit...