Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This new requirement, which was inserted into the U.S. proposal last fall largely at the behest of the Pentagon, is intended to restrict Soviet strength by still another measure: ballistic missile "throw weight," the cumulative power to hurtle megatons of destruction at targets thousands of miles away in a matter of minutes. Because they have invested so heavily in large land-based ballistic missiles, the Soviets have a 3-to-1 advantage over the U.S. in throw weight. In his Eureka speech, Reagan said that in some undefined second phase of the START talks he would seek to eliminate that...
Bankers who loaned Mexico $80 billion on the strength of its oil riches have been growing increasingly edgy about their borrower, and the chance of a big drop in oil prices has done nothing to soothe their nerves. For the past month the lenders have been putting the final touches on a rescheduling agreement designed to halt the financial skid that Mexico has been in since late summer, when the country nationalized its banks after devaluing the peso for the second time in less than a year. U.S. private lenders alone have some $25 billion at risk in Mexico...
Borg's physical gifts alone would have been enough to make him extraordinary: regular pulse rate 35, usual blood pressure 70 over 30. His countryman Ingemar Stenmark, the slalom skier, placed second to him in a European health institute's study of the strength in athletes' legs. Then there were Borg's instincts. He was fitted with enough quickness even before trophy was installed, magnified by his almost eerie eyesight. "He's a robot from outer space," was always Court Jester Ilie Nastase's hushed theory, "a Martian." But of all the elements...
Burle hopes to be at full strength for the Beanpot. "It's the season in itself. It's the bragging rights to Boston. I'd like to go for the whole ball of wax this year, because we really have the talent," he says...
...past several years, Harvard has entered the match with a few individual stars, in opposition to the Tigers skill at the lower spots on the roster. This time Harvard's strength continued all the way to Co-Captain John Dinneen at number seven, and Princeton could win only at eight and nine and the extra unofficial matches...