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...President Reagan as a last-ditch attempt to find a home for the orphan MX missile, recommended the prompt deployment of 100 MX missiles in existing Minuteman silos and research on silo "hardening." For the long term, the panel proposed the development of an unspecified number of smaller (15-ton) single-warhead missiles with a range, like the MX's, of 8,000 miles...
...report argued that the highly accurate, nearly 100-ton MX, with ten warheads, is needed immediately to "remove the Soviet advantage in ICBM [intercontinental ballistic missile] capability" and goad Russia into serious arms-reduction negotiations. For the 1990s, however, the so-called Midgetman missile must be developed because, with one warhead to the MX's ten, it would make a less tempting target to the Soviets...
DUMB SHIT (Sell-annointed, no Harvard affiliation) of St Paul (3:29). "It was a piece of cake--no it was though Tonight I'm gonna eat a ton of spaghetti...
Some recalcitrant states, in reply, charged that DOT was sloppy in selecting the routes for the interim list. According to the New Jersey transportation department, DOT opened to 40-ton trucks a portion of Route 9 in the state that includes a bridge currently posted with a twelve-ton weight limit. The designations will also permit bigger trucks to rumble through the traffic-clogged streets of New York City, Philadelphia, Trenton and other metropolitan areas on their way to delivery terminals...
...closest Harvard could get. The rest of the game was a back-and-forth trading of goals, each would-be Harvard rally quickly squashed by a Brown tally. High scoring Bruin freshman Ton Gagnon answered Hawley's goals with a pair...