Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Though the very superior students will always have a multitude of choices because of academic scholarships, the choices middle-class students have are significantly more limited than in the 1970s because federal aid hasn't kept up with the increasing cost of college," says Michael L. Donahue, associate director of admissions at University of Michigan...
...learned its lesson. This month's experiments were preceded by a well- orchestrated campaign that included public meetings, mounds of explanatory literature and plant tours for county officials. The final legal hurdle fell the day before the first test. "The court is convinced," said Sacramento Superior Court Judge Darrel Lewis, "that ((the experiments)) are not unleashing some deleterious bacteria that are going to consume the city of Brentwood or anywhere else...
NATO commanders claimed that their new weapons strengthened the alliance's strategic doctrine of "flexible response," which calls for the use of INF and battlefield nuclear arms if NATO armies are threatened with defeat by superior East bloc conventional forces. Allied governments welcomed the U.S. missiles as clear symbols of America's continued commitment to Europe's defense. Nevertheless, NATO stuck to its original offer: if the Soviet SS-20s targeted on Europe were ever removed, the new NATO missiles would...
...general public, many European politicians fear that removal of all American INF missiles would leave dangerous holes in the U.S. nuclear umbrella. For their part, NATO commanders warn that an INF deal would leave them overly reliant on tactical missiles and battlefield nuclear weapons to deter superior East bloc forces. If NATO were attacked, the limited range of these weapons would prevent deep strikes into Soviet territory and would probably make West Germany the nuclear battleground...
...become the object of intense controversy. Critics of this so-called zero option say it would "decouple" the defense of the U.S. from that of Western Europe: the less nato can rely on American nuclear weapons in Europe, the more it will be at the mercy of the numerically superior conventional forces of the Soviet bloc...