Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explanations for America's "deindustrialization" and prescribing solutions to it about as fast as companies have been laying off workers. With The Deindustrialization of America, Boston College's Barry Bluestone and MIT's Bennett Karrison add to this growing literature, which includes everything from Lester Thurow's baleful Zero-Sum Society to the corporatist musings of Felix Rohatyn in the New York Review of Books to Ezra Vogel's jealous Japan as Number...
...funny. This is the same old pretentious, anti-anti-intellectual garbage that a small coterie of snooty brie-toting critics have been shovelling out ever since the initial Pink Panther, and it's as stupid now as it ever was. Just because a movie is all slapstick and zero social commentary doesn't mean it can't be uproariously funny. So you want relevance? Trail of the Pink Panther is actually a symbolic indictment of supply-side economics during a recession-plagued post-industrial era. Satisfied...
There is a sharp division of opinion in Washington as to how the U.S. negotiators in Geneva should be instructed to reply. The Pentagon counsels simply saying no and insisting on Reagan's zero-zero plan. Defense officials dismiss Andropov's bid as a mere propaganda ploy. They fear that if the U.S. makes a counterproposal, Moscow will ask European governments to delay installation of the American missiles while negotiations continue, then stall the talks endlessly, in effect blocking deployment of the Pershing IIs and cruises without yielding anything...
Thus, the diplomats believe, the U.S. must indicate willingness to discuss something other than zero-zero and be ready with a counterproposal in case Moscow shows any give. Officials advocating a counterproposal say the U.S. should insist on two principles: 1) if the Kremlin retains any SS-20s targeted on Western Europe, it must agree to the installation there of an equivalent number of U.S. warheads (not just launching vehicles); 2) any SS-20s removed from this force must be completely dismantled...
...Soviets, is highly problematic. Its advocates must first sell their own boss, Secretary of State George Shultz. If he supports their recommendation and takes it to Reagan, he will probably wind up in a head-to-head struggle with Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, who is totally committed to zero-zero. The compromisers have one major ally: Chief Negotiator Paul Nitze, who is threatening to quit unless he is sent back to Geneva with less rigid negotiating instructions...