Word: systemics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon took office, he refused to suspend MIRV testing (which began in secret under McNamara) or seek an immediate mutual moratorium with the Soviets. Coincidentally, the Administration stalled the opening of SALT until the Pentagon completed the flight tests of the Minuteman and Poseidon missiles equipped with the MIRV system. Technological requirements outweighed diplomatic priorities. By going too far with the development and testing of MIRVs, the President killed in advance hopes of a mutual MIRV moratorium at Helsinki...
...SALT-designed for failure from the start-would give the Administration more excuse to pressure Congress for increased military spending. This is not, one must hope, a conscious motive. The government may actually be working for some limit, formal or informal, to the increase of ABMs. The ABM system is threatening to become enormously expensive. Quite apart from the basic cost of the new weapons. The deterrence principle requires sufficient "ABM-indestructible" weapons to penetrate ABM defenses...
Joseph M. Cromn, associate professor in the Graduate School of Education, is directing a major review of the administration and organization of the Boston school system...
...study will examine school-community relations, evaluate curriculum programs, suggest monciaty allotments, and discuss the make-up of the School Committee. The group will also discuss such general topics as the utilization of resources outside the school system and the role of the school staff in implementing changes...
...Ours is no more than the power to recommend, suggest, and point out ways to change the system to make it perform." Cronin said Most reforms could be initiated by the School Committee, but others, especially those involving the budget, would require action by the governor, legislature, or mayor...