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...President's men insisted that the issue was not Dense Pack but "modernization" of the land leg of the nation's nuclear triad. At the least, they argued, MX production should proceed as a bargaining chip in the START talks. But even Alabama Republican Jack Edwards, who directed pro-MX forces, conceded that the missile "is too expensive to use simply as a chip." The strongest argument for Reagan's position was offered by Michel, who sought to sow doubts about the ability of Congressmen to assess such technical matters. "In every age there are always well...
...second element that lessens the severity of the counterforce gap is the new American SLBM, the Trident II, which will be a seagoing missile powerful and accurate enough to knock out Soviet silos. In the sea-based leg of its triad, the U.S. already has a huge advantage over the Soviet Union in three respects: geography makes it far easier for the U.S. to get its subs to sea and keep them there; U.S. subs are much quieter than Soviet ones and therefore harder to track and destroy in a conflict; and American SLBMs are more numerous, more accurate...
Another former manager, Randall S. Yanker '83, points to the unusual twofold burden borne by the triad, who must both monitor a business and educate the managing operators. Calling it a "luxury" to work with already trained managers. Yanker notes that without that luxury, students must often simply accept what "upper management" wants...
...This triad is supposed to serve a monitoring role and act as a sounding board for faculty ideas, under the guidance of a Board of Directors composed of seven students, seven faculty members and seven alumni. In addition, the permanent positions are intended to add continuity and smooth over the problem created by HSA's unavoidable turnover each year, says Harold Rosenwald '27, who has served as a board member and the corporation's legal counsel since its inception...
...Well-Tempered Clavier, Bach unfolded a serene meditation in the key of C over a placid, unchanging rhythmic pattern. To set the proper bardic tone for his mythological Ring of the Nibelung operatic saga, Wagner spun the entire Prelude of Das Rheingold from a single E-flat major triad, embellishing a bass note into a torrent of arpeggios to depict the primal nature of the Rhine. Ravel built Bolero around a sinuous, reiterated melody, clad in shifting orchestral colors, which only once lurches briefly away from its home...