Word: trident
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...creature this blob, an amoeboid that has taken on a new shape that belies its original form. Defense contractors, businessmen, and the wealthy now mold its front, while minority groups, unions, the poor and others have been squished into the background. Money, bureaucracy, and connections make up its trident...
Also sought is $3.1 billion for the eighth Trident missile-firing sub, $1.4 billion for the first production of a new generation of more powerful warheads for the Trident missiles, and a classified amount for the radar-evading "stealth" bomber...
...Government last week fired a second salvo at General Dynamics (1984 sales: $7.8 billion), the maker of the Trident nuclear submarine and the F-16 fighter aircraft. The Navy announced that as a result of the conspiracy charges, the company will be temporarily suspended from obtaining new federal defense contracts, which generate more than 75% of General Dynamics' total revenues...
Forstein said the $218 million spent on AIDS research this year is relatively low, considering that it is only one-tenth the cost of a Trident submarine. He said $5 billion will be spent to treat victims of AIDS this year, because of the lack of proper less expensive facilities...
Under the Soviet proposal, the development of any new strategic weapon would be banned or severely restricted. The worst-case interpretation of the provision would forbid the two new American land-based ICBMs--the MX and Midgetman--as well as a new Trident II submarine-launched missile that has a hard-target kill capacity. Yet it would somehow permit inclusion of the two new Soviet ICBMs, the SS-24 and SS-25, which are roughly the equivalent of the MX and Midgetman...