Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MIRV program was originally considered necessary to counter the extensive anti-ballistic missile systems (ABM) that the Soviet Union was supposedly building by saturating these systems with many bombs at once. Yet even after ABM systems were limited to two for each country in the SALT I treaty, and then one for each in the 1974 Vladivostok Accords, the MIRV program continues in full force. One author suggests that the real reason behind MIRV deployment was rivalry between the Navy and the Air Force, and the latter's desire to have the ability to win a nuclear war, by developing...
...open road in my parents manual Toyota. The store itself was, as its motto suggested, "not your average drug store." Some retail genius had decided to try putting all the department stores and drugstores in New York out of business. The result was a Woolworth's with the lunch counter removed, a prescription counter put in, and the walls repainted a sickening yellow...
...part of its plan to counter subversion in El Salvador, the Reagan Administration announced last week that it was sending 20 more advisers and $25 million in equipment to the Salvadoran government. This brings the total number of U.S. military personnel in El Salvador to 54. In an interview with outgoing CBS Correspondent Walter Cronkite, Reagan stressed the "technicality" that these men would not really be "advisers," but members of "training teams" similar to those working in some 30 foreign countries. Said Reagan: "I certainly don't see any likelihood of us going in with fighting forces...
...better programming and more viewers. Now, however, public TV is confronted with a double threat: drastic budget cutbacks by the Reagan Administration and competition from rapidly proliferating private cable systems that are scouring the market for cultural programs. Last week the board of the Public Broadcasting Service voted to counter both with a bold and perhaps desperate plan: a profit-making pay TV system...
...peasants' struggle against oppression. In particular, the image of the purity and impartiality of the church seems to grossly misrepresent the past or present realities of life in Central America. The real debates today in El Salvador or Guatemala are not over the Church's role as a counter-revolutionary force, but over its emerging position as an active supporter of violent change...