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...discounted. They expect future Cuban ventures to be more cautious than the attempt to take over Grenada, which apparently went further and faster than Castro intended; American officials doubt Castro wanted Bishop killed. The Cubans, says a State Department official, "always try hard to keep below the threshold of our tolerance, and they were in Grenada until their threshold fell out from under them." But U.S. diplomats fully expect the Cubans to continue striving for regional influence. Says one: "They lost something of value on Grenada, but they're not about to turn into Boy Scouts as a result...
Council members are elected under a proportional system in which a candidate must receive a minimum number of votes to be elected. Once a candidate reaches this threshold, additional votes are transferred to the next choice marked on the ballot. Thirty-one candidates were elected on the first round of balloting...
There is another what if. What if all the students who could use a computer got access to one? An estimated 250,000 computers are now distributed among 44 million students. To reach what M.I.T.'s Papert calls the "threshold of seriousness"-one half hour of computer use a day per child-would require at least another 3 million machines. Estimated cost: $4.5 billion. And if sufficient equipment were made available, the schools would still face a costlier problem: teacher training. As a rule of thumb, each dollar spent on computers requires two more dollars to teach the teachers...
...what level the order to use nuclear weapons originated on his side, and whether there is any chance that the conflict might still be confined without our resorting to nuclear retaliation." McNamara also recommended a major buildup of NATO'S conventional defenses to raise the "threshold" at which a conflict would "go nuclear"; the creation of a "nuclear-free zone" on either side of the Iron Curtain; and the removal of about 3,000 of the roughly 6,000 U.S. nuclear weapons stationed in Europe. A similar approach was urged by a number of allied defense officials...
...been brothers in the faith of Mao-Marx-Lenin. But history held truths that overrode Marxism-Leninism as, for example, that suffering is a bond, but power is a drug. And once power was in their hands, the drug addled their minds and together they brought China to the threshold of ruin...