Word: threshold
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...Higher Threshold. Adenauer's gravest cause of uneasiness was his suspicion that the new Administration was softening in its resolve to use nuclear weapons to defend Western Europe against a Russian attack with conventional forces. Adenauer knew that the new Administration wanted to build up NATO's conventional military forces and to raise the "threshold" at which the U.S. would employ nuclear weapons. He also knew that the Kennedy Administration was doubtful about previous plans to build up a new deterrent force of Polaris missile submarines, under the control of NATO rather than the U.S. -a proposal that...
Adenauer feared that if NATO failed to acquire an independent nuclear force and if the U.S. raised the threshold for employment of its own nuclear weapons, the Russians might be tempted to marshal their superior conventional military forces and march into West Germany...
...standing on the threshold of a new tradition, of a new age of symbolism," he concluded. "No one will doubt the laws of logic, but we will recognize that the logic of cause and effect does not have universal application in describing reality." Architecture especially must come to this realization and the symbolism of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusler must supplant functionalism and superficial facades, Giedlon declared...
...controlled ban of explosions, underwater tests, air tests, and underground tests producing a seismographic signal in excess of 4.75. This figure represented the point below which scientists could not agree on the nature of the disturbance. The plan also made provision for a progressive lowering of this "threshold level" as new research made better detection possible...
...quarter-century. The plant is now almost completed and should provide 500 new jobs in the fall. "Muncie is on the move," says William F. Craig, vice president of the WLBC TV-radio station and a wheel in the Chamber of Commerce. "We're on the threshold of the greatest employment in our history." Jim Smith, the patternmaker, is studying drafting at night school and reading public-library books on transformers in hopes of getting a job at Westinghouse. But the Smith family has a dark view of the path ahead-Westinghouse or no. "From here...