Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glancing reference. The Soviets' ridiculous opening proposal, in which they offered to participate in creation of a "nuclear-free Europe" (thereby leaving the Europeans at the political and military mercy of vastly superior Warsaw Pact conventional armies), is not ridiculed nearly as harshly as the West's "zero option...
Mondale was slow to zero in on Falwell. But when audiences began to respond with feeling to Mondale's occasional swipes at the Religious Right, the Democratic candidate began to make Falwell a standard item in his campaign repertory. Now Mondale bangs away at Falwell's boast that in a second Reagan term "we will get at least two more appointments to the Supreme Court." Says Mondale: "If you pull their lever, you'll be handing over the Supreme Court to Jerry Falwell, who wants to run the most private questions of your life...
Reagan aides profess not to be worried about the age issue. White House polls show fewer than 10% of the respondents expressing concern about Reagan's age and, says one adviser, "so far the effect on how people say they are going to vote is zero." Some point out, in a kind of backhanded defense of their boss, that he was mentally loose and sometimes sloppy with facts even when he was young. But that does not settle the question. "The real danger isn't that [his debate miscues] connote an age problem," said former Reagan Campaign Manager...
...income taxes Though that may represent the biggest tax advantage enjoyed by any major U.S. corporation, it is not rare. A study released last week by Citizens for Tax Justice, a Washington-based public interest coalition, shows that loopholes and incentive programs are reducing many corporate tax bills to zero. Among 250 major companies whose financial records were surveyed, 51% paid no federal income taxes in at least one of the past three years...
...that you know the Soviets will reject out of hand--this has been the tact pursued by Administration negotiators wary of the utility of arms control and confident that the only way to meet the "threat" is to build more weapons. This is the attitude that colored the U.S. zero-zero proposal on short-range missiles in Europe, and which helped scotch the reasonable "walk-in-the-woods" compromise under which NATO deployments would be scaled back for a reduction of Soviet SS-20s. It is the same attitude which, in the strategic talks, asks Moscow to rein in their...