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...deterrence were to fail and the Soviets fired the first shot, the SIOP is intended to give the President an elaborate array of carefully calibrated choices for retaliation. The task would be twofold and exquisitely difficult: on the one hand, to react in a way that would both punish the Soviets for what they had done and limit their ability to do more, while at the same time to avoid overreacting, so as not to provoke an all-out follow-up attack in which the Soviets throw everything they have...
...House has little choice but to sound conciliatory, even if it does not budge an inch just yet. After last week's meeting with G.O.P. congressional leaders, one White House aide described the visitors' views on the chances of the President's budget being passed as "twofold: slim and none." In his continuing campaign to stir up proposals to pare the President's whopping deficits, Republican Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker himself suggested a temporary surtax of 5% to 10% on individual income taxes in 1982. The plan would net an estimated $37 billion...
...answer, according to Robert H. Scott, director of financial systems, is twofold. A number of expenses, he says, are increasing much faster than inflation. The most notable such cost to the University is student...
...Director John Caird, 33, decided on Nicholas Nickleby and commissioned Playwright David Edgar, 33, to write the adaptation. Edgar, whose Destiny was produced at the Aldwych in 1977 and whose Mary Barnes was staged at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater last year, recalls that "it was a twofold challenge: to convert a rambling, complexly plotted novel into a play in a few months, and to respond to ideas from the two directors, from Designer John Napier, from Composer Stephen Oliver and all those actors." Working communally?an R.S.C. tradition exemplified by Peter Brook's 1970 production of A Midsummer...
Henry said the importance of bringing minorities into faculty positions is twofold. "We must make the contribution to academic medicine that we are able to make but haven't yet." He added that minority presence on the faculty is important in the recruitment of additional minority candidates...