Word: tagging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overestimate Poland's ability to institute Western-style reforms. Poland could become eligible for additional World Bank and IMF loans -- but only after implementing economic restrictions, including strict wage controls, that are bound to alienate Polish workers. At the moment, neither Jaruzelski nor Walesa can afford the political price tag attached to such a bargain...
...Tomorrow's World" turns into "Me and You (Against the World)," a terrific horn-driven rocker that ends each verse with a dizzily assymetric tag line. Flawless, and followed by "Down to London," which would also be perfect except for the eerie similarity between its Latin American piano figure and that of Carlos Santana's "Evil Ways." This becomes a tragic flaw; the combination of tamborine, piano, and Motown harmonica, which would otherwise be irresistable, is undercut by one's idle speculation as to how Jackson's lawyer will deal with the imminent plagiarism suit...
...underwater-surveillance system. Vastly more powerful than the Navy's most sophisticated sonar, it can identify real threats to the base, distinguishing them from the normal cacophony of noise in the cold, murky waters of Puget Sound. Developed at a cost of nearly $30 million, it can spot and tag intruding divers, making it possible for them to be intercepted, and can outmaneuver any underwater machine. Yet just about the only maintenance required is 20 lbs. of fish a day and an occasional pat. The system, it turns out, is a squadron of dolphins...
...ICBM silos would be supplemented by another 50 "garrisoned" on special railroad cars stationed on military bases. If a U.S.-Soviet confrontation loomed, the missiles would be moved out on 180,000 miles of railway across the nation. The main advantage of this scheme is its relatively low price tag: an estimated $12 billion for 50 missiles carrying 500 warheads. A somewhat cheaper option ($8 billion) would shift the existing silo-based MX's to railroad flatcars...
Critics of the plan, however, believe it will prove a costly, unrealistic mistake. Though estimates place the cost of the initial phase at about 60 cents a person a day for the first five years, or about $2.79 billion a year, opponents believe the price tag could be as high as $15 billion a year. A study prepared at the University of Southern California calculated the resultant loss in jobs -- mainly from companies forced by added antismog costs to relocate -- to be in excess of 30,000. "This area used to be called the promised land," complained Los Angeles County...