Word: incrementally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long as Europe wants them. A useful byproduct of the process would be a systematic re-evaluation of the existing inventory of very short-range tactical nuclear weapons, a legacy of three decades of ad hoc decisions; these weapons now represent at one and the same time an increment to deterrence and the greatest danger of unintended nuclear war because, being deployed so far forward, they are unusually subject to the exigencies of battle...
...their ethnic distinction by refusing to become acculturated ... Only a small minority want to move from their villages into the cities and take urban jobs. The real problem is going to come from the labor side. There is a serious labor shortage in the Soviet Union. Most of the increment to the labor force is going to have to be from central Asians...I see Andropov using more traditional methods to deal with this new work force, methods associated with Stalin's era. There will be more of an effort to combat drinking and absenteeism. There will be an effort...
...small luxuries of working for a weekly magazine is the extra increment of time, denied to daily journalists -an advantage especially useful in dealing with an event that unfolds on several fronts. This week's cover story on the damaging indiscretions of First Brother Billy Carter was just such a case. Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, who wrote the main narrative, weighed reports from every TIME domestic news bureau on the political repercussions of the scandal. In addition, members of the Washington bureau handled various aspects of the story as it developed. White House Correspondent Christopher Ogden reported the Administration...