Word: tridents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cost of providing artificial or transplant hearts for the 50,000 patients who need them is equivalent to that of three Trident submarines, I will do without the Tridents...
...theory, even such a cost is quite feasible in a trillion-dollar economy. For the Federal Government, the gigantic bill would represent only about 3% of the budget deficit, the price of three Trident submarines, or about half of what is spent annually on bridge and highway repair. And until fairly recently, the ideal of good medical care for every citizen was proclaimed to be a top national priority. "The fulfillment of our national purpose," Congress rather grandly declared in 1966, "depends on promoting and assuring the highest level of health attainable for every person...
Weinberger also accused General Dynamics and its Electric Boat Division last week of "extraordinary neglect" for delivering the first of eleven nuclear-powered Trident submarines 2½ years behind schedule. Democratic Senator William Proxmire, meanwhile, produced documents purporting to show that General Dynamics had made unreasonably low bids on contracts for 18 Los Angeles-class nuclear attack subs, then relied on huge cost overruns to ensure its profits...
...nuclear weapons. She opposed funding for the MX missile, the new B-1B bomber, production of nerve gas and President Reagan's Star Wars concept of space-based defenses. On the other hand, she has spoken of the need for a strong defense and backed funding of the Trident Nuclear Submarine, the Pershing II Nuclear Missile and Draft Registration...
...hope to identify ways in which a firm like Bolt, Beranek, and Newmann [a local research firm] can use its technology for turbines in civilian boats rather than building Trident missiles," Jeb Brugman, the commission's executive director, said at a press conference Thursday...