Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...notice a growing consensus among observers of the international scene that it's time for the U.S. to reduce its commitment to NATO. More than echoes of the traditional cries for greater "burden sharing" among our allies, an increasing array of academics are calling for a long-term "devolution" and pullout from our commitment to defend Western Europe and Japan, while arguing that a failure to do so will lead to long-term American decline...
...other nations experience more rapid economic growth and threaten its market shares, the Great Power feels its security threatened and instinctively spends more on defense, compounding the problem of its long-term economic decline. The Power becomes "overstretched," as it no longer has the capacity to defend all its international commitments...
America may be in the midst of a long-term decline, not because of the Europeans' failure to pay for "their share" of NATO's defense or because of protective measures by the Japanese government, but because it refuses to promote national savings and encourage investment. Instead of blaming Japan for our inability to compete abroad or accusing our European allies of being responsible for our deficits, the United States should realize that it cannot continue to pursue such reckless, consumption-oriented fiscal policies in the years to come and that it must reinvest in job training, education, and research...
Faculty members contacted yesterday agreed with Altshuler that Dukakis would be an asset to the K-School because of the governor's experience in public affairs and his past term as a professor at Harvard...
This month the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct will review the Hampton case, and there is talk in the state legislature of impeachment. Cathcart says Hampton will probably not be removed before his term runs out--it will be up to the voters in Dallas to send the judge packing, and it will be up to the gay community to continue agitation and publicity toward that...