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Once we decided on such an approach, we could proceed with it either as part of an arms control agreement or unilaterally as part of our defense policy. For example, we could propose to reduce and transform the strategic arsenals of both sides to a low number of single-warhead missiles over a ten-year period. The totals should be set at the lowest number that could be monitored; that is, at a level where a violation significant enough to overturn it could not be hidden. The permitted number of missiles may be as low as 500; at any rate...
...restrictions. He told anyone who would listen that Chrysler's future was threatened unless it could get financial help to transform its aging, oversize fleet into economical front- wheel-drive cars. It took losses of $1 billion, plus all of lacocca's lobbying during his first year at Chrysler, to ram the mes sage through...
...yelp of joy, only to riddle him with bullets: a girl embraces a long lost cousin in black shirt, but her husband pushes her aside with a rifle; both sides tending to their wounded, inadvertently borrow each other's water bottles, and Cecilia's eyes, widening in fright, transform the sorry spectacle into a fantastic combat of gladiators...
...signature of Mitterrand's flamboyant and popular Minister of Culture, Jack Lang, 43.* Dapper in his close-cut suits, possessed of boyish good looks and dark curls that seem to stir women, Lang has ambitious plans for the arts in Socialist France. "Our goal," he says, "is to transform all of France into a cultural work site." The transformation of the budget has been dramatic. In 1981, under President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the Ministry of Culture received $500 million, or .47% of the national budget; this year the figure has shot up to $1.05 billion...
...idea was simple--to travel around the country in a circular route, stopping at any town that sounded interesting, and avoiding at all costs the multi-lane interstates that transform the landscape around them into identical blurry lines of trees from Boston to Seattle. He would stick to the back roads, the blue highway, and find towns as yet unmolested by the Howard Johnson convenience pitstop of the American superhighway. By the time he returned to Columbia, he had traversed some 11,000 miles in three months on the road...