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...verification procedures that the Administration says it wants to "strengthen" before negotiating a comprehensive ban are in two treaties. The 1974 Threshold Test-Ban Treaty (TTBT) outlaws all underground detonations of warheads having an explosive yield larger than 150 kilotons. (Detonations above ground or under sea are prohibited by a previous treaty.) The 1976 Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty (PNE) provides for the same explosive limits if nuclear blasting should ever be used in such enterprises as mining or canal digging. TTBT requires a U.S.-Soviet exchange of relevant data, which can then be checked against seismic sensor readings. PNE goes...
...threshold of a massive amount of new development," Lindquist says, adding that his plans could create thousands of new jobs in the city...
...others, such as Chelsea Mayor Joel Pressman, said they intend to battle the requirement. "I had been campaigning under the assumption that the 15 percent rule was not going to be in effect," he complained, are-going that it is unfair at this time to enforce the threshold clause...
...faultfinders have proclaimed that in his discussion of the fate of student aid. Bok has given short shrift to those who don't make his academic grade--i.e., who aren't the stuff of the Ivy League. In his suggestion that students who do not achieve some "modest threshold" of college board scores be denied financial aid opportunities afforded those who transcend the cut-off mark. Bok was taken by his foes to mean that only the elite should reap the rewards of federal dollars. Aha! said reporters and columnists, educators and students: The president of Harvard has finally exposed...
...true that the constitution would not have achieved the turnout threshold if those who voted "no" had abstained. Such odd results are possible in many voting situations. A voter may get the least desired outcome by pursuing the most desired outcome. (A voter who prefers Carter to Reagan votes for Anderson and gets Reagan...