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...with traps. For those who hold out hope for a comprehensive arms-control agreement, there was some good news: Moscow's plan offers a significant reduction in the weapons that Washington considers most threatening, warheads deployed atop land-based strategic missiles. There was some bad news too: the Soviet method of counting weapons so distorts strategic realities that it is simply unacceptable to the U.S. Equally an anathema to the Reagan Administration is the continued Soviet insistence that the U.S. abandon its Strategic Defense Initiative, commonly known as Star Wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mix of Hope and Hokum | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...other major pitfall in the Soviet plan, from the U.S. perspective, is the method of counting offensive weapons. The Soviets propose a 50% reduction in all "relevant" systems, those that can reach the other superpower's territory. But they count the "relevant" systems very differently from the U.S.--and in a way that is blatantly unfair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mix of Hope and Hokum | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...council uses the Hare system of proportional representation method to tabulate election results...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Undergraduate Council Election Results Held | 10/12/1985 | See Source »

This flying method was to be the conure's downfall for when he became sick last spring, he took a dive from his cage and committed suicide...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Room Pets: Furry Malefactors? | 10/5/1985 | See Source »

...would tell them, 'I might be Black and I might be a woman but I want the same things you want,"' and then talk about issues which affect everyone, Patton says, outlining her political method. "I am a Black woman but also a politician," Patton says. She did not concentrate on issues specific to Blacks or women in her campaigns...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Some Interesting Fellows | 10/3/1985 | See Source »

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