Word: strike
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Harvard first offered a post to Moroz, who has spent all but nine months of the past 14 years in Soviet prisons for anti-government activities, during his 20-week protest hunger strike in 1974, and repeated it yearly since then...
...wonder if the proposed budget is just the bare minimum. First, with regard to the nuclear deterrent, former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara determined that an adequate nuclear deterrent was 200-400 megaton equivalents, enough explosive to destroy about 30% of Soviet population and 70% of industry in a second strike. Today the U.S. deploys over 10,000 strategic nuclear warheads, many times the McNamara deterrent, as well as 20,000 "tactical" nuclear warheads. Thus the nuclear weapons load grows, but the target list is quite finite. Even granting some problems of vulnerability and reliability with strategic systems, as well...
...Price of Defense succeeds in forging those links and providing the alternatives. The Boston Study Group members begin with a coherent view of what U.S. foreign policy goals should be--defense of our traditional allies and of the United States itself, and the maintenance of a nuclear second-strike capability. In calm and modest style, they then describe in detail how U.S. defense spending could be reduced by 40 per cent. They propose cutbacks in the forces "which are primarily useful not against the U.S.S.R. but against the lesser military powers in the poorer half of the world, like Vietnam...
...think the scouts see me as a pitcher with a live arm, with some velocity and some pop. You know, I'm not going to go out and strike everybody or anything," Brown said. "But one criticism they must have is why the inconsistency...
Unfortunately, though marked by several strong individual performances, the visual, the dramatic side of Tommy did not fare quite as well as the music. Given the material, the director must strike a fine balance between the innovative staging needed to connect the fragmentary images produced by the song lyrics and the use of conventional techniques to give the songs dramatic power. The Currier House production falls when the director, Steve Drury, fails in that task...