Word: mx
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...basic strength and well-being of the United States is not being built on increased nuclear weapons, or the MX missile which President Carter has had to promise in the hope--which may turn out to be in vain--of assuring the passage of a treaty which those truly concerned with disarmament on the Left attack as much too limited in scope. It is now of such overriding symbolic importance, however, that its defeat in the Senate would seem to me to unravel what little fabric of international comity there exists, and possibly to force the Chinese and the Soviet...
Much of what Congress did pass into law contradicts the "less is more" approach espoused early in the year. Lobbied heavily by the National Education Association, Congress established a separate Department of Education. Both Houses gave the go-ahead to the development of a prototype of the MX missile, a program that if fully carried out would cost an estimated $30 billion. Just before its Christmas adjournment, Congress agreed to guarantee $1.5 billion in loans to the flat-tired Chrysler Corp., by far the largest rescue effort in the country's history. Congress failed to pass any substantive anti...