Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration has tried to stop leaks through a series of expanded restrictions on U.S. employees, including lie-detector tests; insiders say that since taking office the Administration has had a steady average of 20 to 30 investigations in progress. This activity might increase as the Pentagon moves toward high-tech, supersecret weaponry, such as the proposed Star Wars antimissile system. Moreover, to the alarm of civil libertarians, the Administration now claims that leakers can be jailed under an existing law: the Espionage...
...concert halls in the U.S. have tended to be either lavishly restored movie $ palaces, such as Powell Hall in St. Louis and the Paramount Theater in Oakland, or gleaming, high-tech edifices like Davies Hall in San Francisco and Meyerhoff Hall in Baltimore. Last week in St. Paul, Architect Benjamin Thompson, the designer of Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace, unveiled a stunning combination: the Ordway Music Theater, a $45 million jewel overlooking the Mississippi that is one of the handsomest public spaces for music in America...
Some defense advocates reply that high-tech ABMs (which now go by the new initials BMD, for ballistic missile defense) might be limited in future arms- control agreements just as the old ABMs were limited, not eliminated, in SALT I. The 1972 treaty allowed each side to keep two systems; later that was cut back to one. The Soviets still have an ABM defense around Moscow; the U.S. had one around a missile field in North Dakota, although it has been deactivated since 1975. Some officials hope that the talks that began last week might end in a similar deal...
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